I recieved a very strange email today, obviously starting my food diary has led to some confusion.

I can't imagine any company in the world would really want quite so many chicken's feet, but who am I to quibble? I've eaten chicken's feet on at least two occasions but I don't think I'll be making any effort to do this again.

I Googled how much does a chicken's foot weigh and the best I could find were some bodybuilder's discussing this on a forum. One had eaten 15-20 and wanted to know how much they weigh each so he could work out how many calories and fat he'd eaten. The best estimate anyeon could give was an average of 50g. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. This means that my Chinese chums are trying to procure 60,000,000 chicken's feet every month. That is 30 million chickens! That's a whole of lot chickens.

Odd dinner today - not the food, the food was really quite good. After Isis and Eve poo-pooing yesterday's concoction I thought I'd cook something they would both love. The whole family loves roast dinners and the generally accepted favourite is roast pork. In addition I made stuffing balls with some really excellent 95% meat Cumberland sausage, some more Cumberland chipolatas wrapped in dry cure streaky bacon and some excellent potatoes roasted in duck fat. The gravy was very tasty and there were salt & pepper sugar snap peas and mushrooms, cooked just crunchy but not raw. What more could one ask for on a lazy Sunday when it's freezing cold and there's a howling gale and flurries of snow?

Oddly however neither Eve nor Isis seemed at all interested. I think they may have eaten a little stuffing and maybe a potato and gravy but nothing else. I don't think Isis even tried the pork and she normally loves sausages in bacon. Odd. Very odd. I hope they aren't coming down with something.