My allergist handed me a list of foods yesterday. Since I broke out in hives from almost everything I’ve eaten lately, I was expecting the worst, but still, it was depressing. So here are a few of them:

Apples
Peaches
Grapes
Oranges
Apricots
Strawberries
Raspberries
Nectarines (there goes summer)
Tomatoes
Peppers
Cherries
Ice cream (well, I knew that)
Gum
Jam or Jelly
Lunch meats such as salami
Bakery items
Diet drinks (what!) except for 7-up and some Hansen’s natural soft drinks
Candies
Hot dogs

On the bright side, I am allowed:
Lemons
Dates
Bananas (hmmm, I’m not sure about those)
Pears
Dates
Figs
Melons (not sure about those either)
Meat
Eggs
Veggies
Fresh lemonade
Water
Vodka

And while this was not mentioned, I can eat 100% cacao chocolate, which is palatable to me if it is chopped and baked into scones, for example. I’m on the second piece of the afternoon. Between the chocolate and the vodka, maybe Christmas won’t be so grim after all.