New Year's Day Foods & other traditions

[D.A.L.U.I.]

In addition to preparing for tonight, we're putting together the New Year's Day meal.  SBG is now pretty international so here's my question, do you have any particular foods you have as part of a New Year's Day meal, or any other traditions for the day?

Our meal, served just after noon must have three items: 1) Ham=health, 2) cabbage=money/wealth and 3)black eyed peas=luck.
Other stuff is also there, rice, etc., but the three must haves are always there and everybody in the family eats some of each even if they don't like the particular food generally.

[wpruitt]

Ham, turnip greens and black-eyed peas here

[Mikekoz13]

Ham, turnip greens and black-eyed peas here

For this Old Country Boy from North Carolina.... this meal sounds like a little bit of Heaven........

[GASlick]

Ham, turnip greens and black-eyed peas here

For this Old Country Boy from North Carolina.... this meal sounds like a little bit of Heaven........

mmmmmm....... good ole southern cookin'!

[Paul]

New Years Day is always ham or some other pork dish.   Absolutely no fowl allowed.  Superstition is that a pig pushes prosperity, health etc towards you, while a fowl scraches it away.   New Years Eve at midnight we hold money in one hand and herring in the other as another tradition. 

[D.A.L.U.I.]

   New Years Eve at midnight we hold money in one hand and herring in the other as another tradition. 

Now you're pulling our leg--this sounds too Lake Wobegon!   Should I forward to Garrison Keilor for his show?

[The Noggin]

After midnight we eat a Pfannkuchen (also called Berliner), a doughnut filled with jam. When I was a child, we used to bake them ourselves and put a coin into one of them, whoever got it would have extra luck financially. As a joke, one was filled with mustard instead of jam. 

[andrew]

Our New Years tradition is to just take it easy after a hectic holiday season.   Stuffed Shrimp and lots of shellfish for New Year Eve dinner, and out for brunch New  Years Day.  Just got home from that, and now it's time to relax ....

[BaldBear]

Always LOTS of Sushi on New Years Day here.

[Paul]

  New Years Eve at midnight we hold money in one hand and herring in the other as another tradition.  

Now you're pulling our leg--this sounds too Lake Wobegon!  Should I forward to Garrison Keilor for his show?

Seriously Paul, we've done it all our life.  It comes from the German side of the family so it may be some Old World superstition.   I should have really phrased that so that it read we hold the money in one hand while "eating" a piece of herring.

[Arnie]

Always LOTS of Sushi on New Years Day here.

Sushi rocks!!! I'm gonna start that tradition next year!!!

I went to a friends house and was introduced to shaking 12 coins as the New Year came in and eating a boiled egg, as well as producing 12 pieces of fruit in a bowl...

I will let you know how it turns out next year...

[D.A.L.U.I.]

 I should have really phrased that so that it read we hold the money in one hand while "eating" a piece of herring.

Okay, that makes sense .  I really like pickled herring, and the raw they have in Amsterdam too.

[FR8TRAIN]

As a joke, one was filled with mustard instead of jam. 

YUMMY!