GABBYABBY

Me too!!! Saurkraut and pork.

barbsmith

We always have cooked cabbage with a silver dollar cooked in it for prosperity.

Lucille

I always have pork either a pork roast and sauerkraut, or pork chops, or ham. You never eat chicken that is bad luck. A chicken scratches backwards and a pig roots forward.
That is what my mom and mother in law always said. You will have good luck the new year if you eat pork.

patdesign

OK my DH didn't particularly care for either, so I put the ham in the pan with with a couple of cans of the black eye peas, and cook away all the juices, The ham (salty smithfield) seasons the peas, YUM! :-D
I think the power of intention is at work here with these "superstitious acts", as we think, we will act to make it come about. :-D :-D :-D

dgrindey

My Mom always cooked black eyed peas and we are Italian.

My Dad always took the old broom and swept the old year out the back door and brought in a new broom through the front door.

Dragonfly Nana

Southern native raised by Northerners....had pork and sauerkraut at Mom's and blackeye peas with stewed tomatoes with at Aunt's house.

Kooklabell

we have lentils and cotechino. My husband is from Italy - Roma

pinkypig

definitly a Southern thang...in FL it's black eyed peas, rice, cornbread, collard greens, ham YUM YUM can't wait for Sat LOL

like ur avtar, I have bostons too

baglady65

We have a few...first coins go in all window you you have money all thru the year and never broke! Have to say its work for all our married life! Next a man is to come thru the door first on the New year brings Good Luck to the house. I have a new one but won't post it sense we have never done it before.

hannajo

My DH and his father go to Aqueduct horse track every New Year's Day to get their free calendar. I don't think there's a huge significance to it other than they're both cheapskates. Gotta love 'em.