Kim, I am on the Low Tyramine diet for Migraine auras...so, my response is experience with the diet. The diet has been a pain due to my love for chocolate, avacados, bread, cheese, peanuts and raspberries. How all these things get lumped into one is beyond me. All were a mainstay, as was microwave meals. Oh, I forgot the raisins loved in oatmeal and ham for great winter soups. It is interesting that our minds think we have to have these things. I still "want" them, and keep thinking I hate everything else. Which is a bit silly as the everything else is quite a long list and no reason to not have some great stuff. Guess it is the grass being greener deal. My list also includes avoiding MSG. Have done a lot of searches to get a handle on this and the Low Tyramine diet. There is nothing out there except one book. And, if you start looking too hard. the list of what you can't have gets longer or just too confusing. Bottom line is anything on the store shelf has MSG as does fast food. So, I'm on the cooking from scratch diet, using fresh food, etc. Tis a pain, but am dealing with it. I will say that with this diet I am sleeping wonderfully. It has been years since getting more than a few hours at a time and waking up at 4 am. Actually I wake up surprised the night is without interruption. Cannot really say there are any other significant changes seen. Let us know how you are doing. It will be interesting to know how the diet affects another in a different situation.

Thanks everyone. I still can't believe how beautiful everything looked. Jon's garden had grown up and evolved in such wonderful ways since I had seen it last. Everything grows and fills in so quickly there. And Mottisfont had undergone a lot of renewal and looked the most amazing I've ever seen any garden to look. Imagine the smell of mock orange, rose, and honeysuckle mingled together and drinking it in for breakfast... But, I do NOT have big feet, those are Jon's clogs I slipped on! Jon is so naughty! Lori

Hey there Dan, Enjoy your trip and take your camera!!!! When I was a flight attendant I had a 10 day layover there, didn't take one photo, thinking I'd be back. OMG, NZ is one of the most beautiful places on his planet and the people are just about the friendliest I've ever met. And yep taking plant material out was next to impossible and I've done my share of "importing." I always let our customs and agriculture know I had plant material with me, I guess as a crew member they were a bit lienent with me. Getting it into the US was usually not an issue, getting it out of NZ was! If you haven't been there before, coming home is going to be difficult. We lost a flight attendant or two there!

Alison- how scrumptious are those cats?! I must admit that I had two of the three items mentally purchased as soon as I saw the theme of the swap which is why I was so disappointed when I looked like I was going to miss it because...well...I just love these things and I loved the idea of sharing them. The 3rd is giving me a little difficulty if only in the having to narrow it down to 1 more but it gives me an excuse to go shopping & see what sings. Cloud_swift- I thought of the fragrances because my husband is vilely opposed to anything scented. Potpourri, candles, sachets, even lotions. I've never had a problem with fragrances but after 14 years of having none in the house I find that I've become very sensitive to them. I can barely walk past a place like Yankee Candle. My MIL, on the other hand, adores scented things & is constantly giving them to us...whereupon they get promptly regifted or donated. So I guess I'm overly sensitive to sending my partner something that they might find repellent :-). In my excitement I missed the caveat of no food. Which eliminates the concern about food allergies. But it's still good to know for future swaps! Nina