19: Almonds

TEAM CAKE! Almonds are a go!!

18c: Peanuts (still)

MNLS, elimination coach extraordinaire, advised that I take a day off from reintroducing. She thinks the rashes and breakouts might be residual hot pepper, or a pepper/peanut combo (goodbye, thai food). I don't itch EVERYWHERE today, so that's good...

18b: Peanuts

In addition to rash on chest, slight rash on left arm and ear. Covered in Benadryl.

18: Peanuts

So, I have decided, not on the advice of MNLS, I've had enough of nightshades for now. The important thing is potatoes seem OK, but I am going to cut nightshades out again and revisit at the end, one project at a time (raw tomatoes, salsa, pasta sauce, different kind of hot pepper, etc. Ugh, and eggplant. So today I reintroduced peanuts. My pulse ticked up slightly - 10-12 bpm. And today my chest is even more broken out, but that might be from the pepper. I suspect peanuts are something to avoid, but obviously not life threatening.

17: Peppers and hot peppers

Regular peppers seem OK, but I hate them anyway so it's not really relevant. However, hot peppers...after eating spicy food my nose started to itch, and actually itched the next day, along with the rest of my face, but not to the same extent, and my wrists. My chest is also breaking out which will be lovely for the wedding. The interesting thing is, I have a really strong memory of having an itchy nose as a child whenever we went to Leo's Pizza, where there was always a big old shaker of how pepper flakes slapped on the table. Do you know how hard it is to satisfyingly scratch a nose?

16: Tomatoes

Raw tomato tasted terrible, heart rate went up around 10bpm. Had tomato sauce as well tonight, heart rate not up but feeling jittery.

15: French fries

Not even sure what to do here, I am so in shock. First off, let me say that after vehemently denying that I would EVER eat fries cooked in disgusting LARD, I wrote to my favorite fry place in town and found out that they cook their fries in beef fat. Um, OK. Maybe that's something you should put on the menu?

But anyways, I ascertained Chez Victor cooks their fries in canola oil, so off I went. And I ordered them, and I ate them, and something weird happened. My stomach maybe wasn't 100% thrilled, but really everything went fine. I just didn't LIKE them that much. I mean, I ate all of them just to be sure, but it was grudging...