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Are there traditional foods to be eaten by Catholics on New Year's Day? I have heard about southern traditions of eating black-eye peas for good luck, but of course, that's superstition. However, it got me to wondering if there ARE any Catholic traditional foods to be served on New Year's Day. What does your family traditionally eat?
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My family never had any special foods on New Year's Day (except football food type things) but I have heard that beans or lentils are traditional. I am from California so it must be more than just a southern tradition. I never heard about beans being good luck though.
Catholic Culture has a menu for New Year's Day on the right column of this page. They also have several other New Year's recipes if you poke around their site.
Since the feast used to be the Feast of the Circumcision, one idea is to eat a Kosher meal. I don't know if Jews have special celebration foods for a Bris, but if they do you could have a meal like that.
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My Grandmother from Russia insisted on always having Keilbasa w/Saurkraut on New Year's Day. Sometimes pierogies too. So growing up I always did that, and now still do  .
And this isn't a Catholic thing per se, but my parents always ordered Chinese Food for New Year's Eve. So, we do that too.
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I'm originally from Alabama, and we always ate black eyed peas, hog jowl, and collard greens. I think the idea is eating a peasant/farmers meal for prosperity in the new year. It is superstitious, I suppose. I think I've also read in Martha Stewart that the black eyed peas looked like coins or something like that.
Hog jowl is just cheap bacon, lol, and often we'd substitute that for kielbasa or some other sausage in the collards.
I wasn't raised Catholic, and my cradle Catholic dh doesn't have his own traditions for that day (aside from attending mass), so, can't help you there.
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Being a southerner, we always do black-eyed peas and collards, seasoned with salt pork. Though it is supposed to be "for luck" I think of it less as a superstition than a simple tradition, much like turkey and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving or champagne and a kiss on new years. I also happen to love black eyed peas and collards, so it works for me!LOL!
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We aren't from the south, but dh's dad was raised in the south, so we do black-eyed peas. My dad(actually his dad used to bring them to us) always had hog jowls, so we do that too. The rest of the day is just football snacks.
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I will let you decide if Texas is considered "the south" or not, but my granny (born and raised in Texas) always made black-eyed peas for New Years with salt pork. She probably did it for good luck (she was Baptist) but we just do it out of tradition. I use ham for the salt pork if I am not making a ham for dinner. Otherwise, I skip it.
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