My sister's got OAD and she's finding new things she's allergic to (or things she's newly allergic to) all the time. It started with certain fruits. Then it was pretty much any uncooked fruit. Then perhaps some vegetables. Now, she's found that even using fresh/raw garlic and onions in food and not cooking them enough gives her problems (she does not have problems with the powder forms, or the pre-minced stuff. Yet.). So my sister either has to cook the daylights out of everything or just eat processed foods.

My mom is allergic to corn and corn-derived products and products made with the use of corn-derived products and possibly meats from animals fed a high percentage of corn. Pretty much any processed food, even the 'natural' or 'organic' stuff, uses corn in the food itself or in its production. So my mom is pretty down to making her own food for anything she would eat, and a lot of the time that ends up being raw foods.

As you can probably see, family dinners are quite an affair to fix.


I learned the 'counting at a glance' thing from an SAT test I took years ago! It was in the reading section of the test, and I found it so interesting I kinda took way more time on it than I needed to. :D;


And eyeball hives are quite possibly the worst thing ever. So I've heard.