Comments on: 5 Lucky Foods for New Year’s Day

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:44:44 +0000

As a southern girl I have always eaten ham, black-eyed peas, collars greens and cornbread on New Years. Definitely for the reasons you mentioned on the collared and the black eyes. The ham I always thought just because it goes well with the other foods and because we always have ham for Christmas and since we’re a small family I freeze a good bit of the remaining ham. I have never heard about the grapes or ring shaped foods though…interesting.

By: Amy @ Positively Splendid

Amy @ Positively Splendid — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:13:55 +0000

In reply to Betsy C. Betsy, what a great idea to set the clocks ahead! We might be doing that tonight!

By: Betsy C

Betsy C — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:14:37 +0000

We’re a military family living in Spain right now and I was amazed by the abundance of grapes last year! The idea of individual, pre-packaged produce is unheard of here, except for New Years. You can buy cans of grapes and packs of fresh grapes with exactly 12 in each tin or bag. I just bought a bunch (though I ran a LITTLE short for my family of five!). This is an easy tradition to add to our New Years celebration. Oh and by the way, we always set the clocks WAY ahead at our house…midnight comes at 9. Though this year, I might have to make it 10…

By: Darnetha @ ChippaSunshine

Darnetha @ ChippaSunshine — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:58:05 +0000

We always have black eyed peas and collard greens. I usually switch up what we serve for the meat but we never have poultry.