What lucky foods do you eat on New Year's?

[DeBora4BobbyL]

What foods do you eat to bring you luck, money, or whatever on New Year's? This is a multiple choice poll!

[ajrsmom]

For as long as I can remember, my Mom cooked pork and sauerkraut and that's what I cook for myself now (my family won't touch sauerkraut). The pork represents pigs and how they move foward, thus moving forward into the new year and the sauerkraut is cabbage, whose leaves resemble dollar bills (money and luck). I've found this on the net: Pennsylvania Dutch heritage dictates that pork and sauerkraut be included in the New Year's Day dinner. Pork is traditional because the New Year is a time to look forward and a hog can not look back.

I cooked the pork in one crockpot and the sauerkraut in another and then add some of the cooked pork into the sauerkraut for me. :)

This is how I cook mine:
Notes: A little brown sugar may be added to the sauerkraut for additional sweetness. I usually add some of the drippings from the pork roast while the sauerkraut is cooking.

I don't know if any of it works but it can't hurt! :p ;)

[Bilby]

Never thought of any foods being particularly lucky before so I'm guessing nothing LOL

[DeBora4BobbyL]

We had Hoppin Johns (black-eyed peas and rice) and spinach. The back-eyed peas also had pork in it. I ordered everyone to eat all the lucky foods as we could not take any chances as bad as our past year has been. lol

[mammajigglypuff]

I never ate anything for luck but my Grandma always had herring.

[sky_40]

Pork and black- peas for luck and smothered cabbage for money. It's an old tale

[Bilby]

Part of family tradition or something you do without thinking .
Just curious that are the reasons?
Like I said never thought of food as luck or unlucky in such a way