For the next two weeks, our household will be going on a Multiple Food Elimination (MFE) Diet. That's jargon from Doris Rapp's book Is This Your Child, a book about "Discovering and Treating Unrecognized Allergies in Children and Adults".

Bleah.

In order to follow this diet, you must spend seven days not eating any common allergens. A long list is provided, along with a more useful and significantly shorter list of allowed foods. Then, one class of allergen is gradually introduced each day over the next eight days. It's not a weight-loss diet, but I don't see how I could gain any weight on it.

The real problem is that adults are supposed to eliminate all nicotine (no problem), alcohol, and caffeine for the whole period. If my blog entries seem more dazed, sleepy, or (God forbid) sober than usual, you'll know what's to blame.

I fully expect to find no unrecognized allergies and food sensitivities. I might be wrong, though, and the only sensible-seeming way to find out is to run the experiment.

Bleah.

Doris Rapp (M.D., did I mention?) appears to be a bit of a crank. Yeah Doris, watch out for them chemicals -- they're poisoning our children. Sheesh.