Last night we had pancakes for dinner because they're one of annie's favorite foods and her diet(and mine because I've agreed to be her partner in change and it will be great for me too) is going to have to radically change. New round of food allergies testing reveals annie is massively allergic to: wheat, rice, barley, soy, cocoa, corn,baker's and brewer's yeast, and to a lesser degree legumes and various others.

Nurse said she can eat all the meat she wants-would be fine if she ate meat!:) After I got the diabetes news I started eating poultry again because grains were blowing my blood sugar--actually they blow it enough that it's likely annie got the grain allergies from me--and I needed more diabetes neutral food choices. But for me, I feel strongly that people shouldn't eat fellow mammals because it's gross and unhealthy to eat your cousins but given my wife's marriage long refusal to join me in ovo lacto vegetarianism and my not really having a problem with eating birds and fish it wasn't hard for me to make changes. (but after the terror of the possible blindness, kidney damage needing dialysis, and foot amputations side effects of uncontrolled diabetes wore off I was back on a bread and sandwich lifestyle--just with meat sandwiches too-boy I suck!--it can be hard to love a self-destructive person--I'm lucky people are so patient with me) Annie, on the other hand, eats fish reluctantly and occasionally because I insisted(she hates beans and was getting bruises when breathed on and began to pale even further than usual) and like any normal teenage girl would like to live on pizza. No wheat is going to be really hard on her and no rice or soy is going to be a pain in the ass on her live in cook(moi)!:)

On the other hand, I'll do things for my monsters that I would never do for myself, so diet changes they are a comin':)( accelerating actually...)

After weeks of avoiding all foods she's allergic to we can add in a few in a controlled rotation, but annie tends to be an all or nothing gray areas are for wooses idiot like her father, so will take unaccustomed discipline for her--I think a food blog like this one might be good for her.