Rest assured, there's no way in hades that I'm going to stop eating starches. John's kind response to my question seems to indicate that nearly everything can cause a flare if combined with the wrong thing. Add to that the fact that I've discovered no relationship between food that I eat and flare-ups. Granted, I could stop eating everything and then add something for a day, but as there are millions of things I could eat, it might take 100 years to figure out what, if anything, is causing the flares. Needless to say, I'm a sceptic.