A blip on an otherwise uneventful Thanksgiving

Skippy All Natural Peanut Butter:

Ingredients:
Roasted peanuts, sugar, palm oil, salt

Philadelphia Cream Cheese:

Ingredients:
Pasteurized Nonfat Milk and Milkfat, Cheese Culture, Salt, Stabilizers (Xanthan and/or Carob Bean and/or Guar Gums)

Cool Whip:
Ingredients:
WATER, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COCONUT AND PALM KERNEL OILS), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, SKIM MILK, LIGHT CREAM, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM CASEINATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, XANTHAN AND GUAR GUMS, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR). CONTAINS: MILK

Domino Powdered Sugar:
pure cane sugar, corn starch

What is all that jibberish above? It's the ingredients of a peanut butter pie that I started to make for Thanksgiving. If you've read this blog for a while then you know that the Little Man passed his peanut nut challenge last fall. He tried Reese's peanut butter cups but didn't like them. He tried some other candy bar that had peanuts (that I've forgotten the name of, Baby Ruth perhaps?) but didn't like those. He hated peanut butter. He hates peanuts. He basically hasn't eaten peanuts since then. What has he eaten that's "nutty". Well, nothing. Unless you count M&M's since they are processed with nuts. He loves M&M's. We've eaten peanuts around him though. His brother has eaten peanuts and then they've shared the same chip bowl. No reaction there that we have seen.

He loves Muddy Buddies and before the challenge I always made it with sunbutter. One time last spring I made it with peanut butter and he came near it, smelled the peanut butter (didn't even taste it, just smelled it) and shunned the Muddy Buddies. I had to make a new batch the next day with sunbutter and that batch he ate.

I've always wondered if his hatred of all things peanut was just because he wasn't used to eating it or if it was his bodies way of telling him something.

Well, I thought I'd use my trickery again and make that stinkin' pie. I put the smallest amount of the filling on a spoon and said "Come here and taste this". He tasted the smallest bit (a lick really) and he said "OH WHAT IS THIS? IT'S AWFUL. IT'S BURNING MY MOUTH". And he spit it out in a paper towel and kept drinking water. At first, I thought he was being overly dramatic because he just doesn't like peanut butter. But then he said "My lip is swelling". So both my husband and I checked him and didn't see anything. I gave him some Benadryl to just be on the safe side. He said his tongue was now fine. His throat was fine. But his lip was still swollen. I checked it again and sure enough there was a hive on his lip right where the smallest amount of peanut butter touch it.

But he passed the challenge, right? He can't be allergic. Can he?

I have a call into the allergist today and am waiting for further instruction on what to do here.

He is allergic to other things (wheat, rye, barley, oat, egg and tree nut). But the products above don't *appear* to have those ingredients in them. I double and triple checked. (SH_T!)

Because he didn't eat the peanuts for a year could the allergy have cropped back up? Was he always allergic? Was it something else? God help us if they want to do another challenge. He won't even smell peanut. There's no way he's going to eat it.

When he said "Mom tried to kill me" my heart broke into a million pieces.

I hate food allergies.