OK, SaraJane, just thought I'd come back with my thoughts on the whole piggy debate.

Peter had his vision about the clean/unclean bit, which relates to the fact he can go to spread the word to the Gentiles. But didn't he already know this? Jesus told him to go and make disciples of the whole world at the end of Matthew's gospel, that would involve Gentiles too. BUT the main thing about preaching to the Gentiles would be going to their houses and partaking of their hospitality. Gentiles wouldn't be serving kosher food, so therefore the Jewish Christians would be asked to eat food they considered unclean. Therefore the restrictions would have had to be lifted so that the word could be spread.

Secondly, Paul's letters (can't remember which right now!) tell us two things. One is the old laws still in use - not only love God and be excellent to each other (ok, I paraphrased) but no fornication and no misuse of blood. Nothing about clean/unclean. Second thing is that he chastises Peter for pretending he's above the Gentiles and trying to force Gentile Christians into the old laws about food, when it is no longer important. I mean, if you're able to eat food sacrificed to an idol then really nothing is off-limits.

Just my thoughts on this. It's not that important to me as I don't really eat it anyway but I thought it would be best to consider it strongly in case I should be cutting it out of DH's and DS's diets. OK, DS's diet - the power of a wife is amazing but not if she just blanket bans her husband's favourite foods!