DH never stays up for New Years. DS and I will watch a little of the entertainment, but just enough for the countdown. Then, he and I will toast the new year with cranberry juice and Pelegríno.

In the morning, mimosas. Maybe DH will make scrambled eggs, bacon, cheese on English muffins or croissants.

We used to have Cornish game hens for NYE, or NYD, but not any more.

My moms used to make a ‘meat pie’ on New Years Eve in Michigan. I didn’t like it as a kid. I probably would now!

New Years Day? Birthday Cake for ME!

Typically we have tamales and pozole (not on the same day - I forget which is which) or else I made Crab Louis for NYE, providing I had king crab legs, which I do not this year. We do have pozole and tamales, however, and that will be enough.

we have the kids over, play cards and board games into the wee hours and have a bunch of snacky things all night. tv and Times Square in background. I remember as a kid watching back to back three stooges shows for a few years.

nothing this year except rabbit rabbit.

The PA German and Amish have pork and sauerkraut and even though I'm German, I don't eat meat so maybe just the sauerkraut.

No spécial food for either.

Our tradition for years has been to have a cook out at one of our homes, on New Year's Eve, but this year, I think we are not going to do that.

Sue

Grew up with traditional black eyed peas, collards, cornbread, and ham on New Years. This year shrimp and grits will be our main course.

No special food here either. Maybe have a BBQ on NYD for just the two of us.. Rain is predicted though and it maybe one of those heavy/tropical like rainfalls. I’ll shop on the day before and see what looks good.

No specific traditions although over the last two or three years I try to make some cultures good luck NYE dish. For 2019, I went Southern... black eyed peas, and pig's trotters. For 2020, I went Scottish for Hogmanay. This year I'm doing Italian - a pork sausage (cotechino) with golden lentils, for good luck.

Even though the family hailed from Kentucky, we never had any "good luck" meals for NYE. We ate what Mom and Dad decided to cook that day. I don't think they really cared that much for black eyed peas....

As for the 31st -- I'm cooking ribeye and greens.

I'll make a big pot of Hoppin' John, but never use black eye peas. They are last on the list of field pea choices for me. This year, it will be purple hull, a flavorful, rich tasting nugget. Hoppin' John calls for chopped celery, onion, green pepper, and garlic along with the smoked pork of choice: bacon, meaty ham hock, and/or ham.

I cook the Carolina Gold rice separately and pile the flavorful stew on top. Local collards are superb this year due to the cold weather and everyone in our little pod will go back for seconds of everything.

We eat these foods all year round with the exception of collards, which are good only after a heavy frost in the fall.

We have no plans to go anywhere on NYE. Depending on the weather I will grill bacon wrapped Filet Mignon and Sea Scallops on NYE or NYD with asparagus and twice baked potatoes. On the day I don't grill we will get some Mexican takeout. I'm craving Chile relleno!

We don't have any traditions, but I remember my mother always made corned beef and cabbage on NYD. No idea where that came from.

As a kid, the NYE family splurge was ruffles potato chips with cream cheese dip -- forbidden junk food the rest of the year! As an adult with DH, our tradition has been pan-fried oysters. But that's because we like them, not that we must have them for luck.

We don't really do food luck or traditions here. We have been fairly quiet for years, and we had a loss in the household at the beginning of the holidays, so there's that. But because this year has ben so 2020, I'm doing a nice surf and turf for New Years. I even have a bottle of local bubbly on ice to try out and got the little noise makers. Doubtful either one of us will make it to midnight, heh.

But NY strips are marinating. Not sure of the surf- I got a couple little lobster tails and some decent large scallops. Maybe I'll do the lobster with brunch and scallops with dinner. Smashed potatoes, sautéed mushrooms, and salads with NYE dinner. I do smashed potatoes now with a large dinner like this because we often failed to finish the usual large baked taters.

No cracking crab this year- but some shelled lump crab if I want to do crab cakes. Maybe I'll do crab cake Benedicts for brunch on NYD. Dinner might be colcannon- I made a batch of salt cod a while back and it's all set to eat. So maybe I'll make some soda bread too. Perhaps even a batch of black eyed peas in the instant pot to go with dinner.

I went to the only fresh seafood store within 30 miles of me this morning to buy mussels, scallops, prawns and oysters. It is a small store and currently only allow 5 customers in at a time. I was 12th in line outside, minutes after it opened. They have a marvelous selection - at least 6 kinds of local-ish oysters and clams, mussels, live crab and lobster... The sign on the crab tank said all crabs have been ordered and are not for sale. Lobster tank said 6 lobsters available for sale and there must have been 50 lobsters. The woman in front of me bought, among other things, 360.00 of frozen king crab legs at 57.00 (Cdn) per pound. Seems a lot of people will be treating themselves to seafood for NYE!

We have always done blackeyed peas, collards or kale and ham here in central Va. Has it worked for luck, not sure but I can say our years are pretty much the same from year to year, so yes maybe it has.

We don't have any special food for new years eve, but the first thing you eat after midnight must be pork. New years day dinner is always kelbash and sauerkraut. Before we moved to the other side of town we would get all dressed up and go to the shrine. Then we went to a local club that was close to our house. This year we are spending new years at our camp. Our daughter, her two girls, and BIL will be here on new years eve. New years day dinner BILs girlfriend will also be joining us.

Nekotash.....YIKES!!!

Our tradition has always been to have things which start with a 'P' for prosperity on New Year's Day, such as pancakes for breakfast, pork (ham), peas (black eyed), mixed greens for wealth - collards, mustard, and turnips, sweet potatoes, and pie. However, this year, because of COVID, it will be just me, so no pancakes for breakfast, I will just have a glass of juice and coffee. Will have the ham, collard greens only, black eyed peas, corn pudding, and a berry pie. I will eat on that all week more than likely and will freeze some.

360.00 of frozen king crab legs at 57.00 (Cdn) per pound.

Oh yes, if only here. Just wasn't happening. I'm one to skip the turf entirely if some good cracking crab is up. And skip the taters too :) But not in the cards. My tiny stock of mussels and wee scallops went into Christmas paella.

My mom and dad were close friends of Herbie (Toledo OH). His wife, Dee, such a lovely woman, was from New Orleans. With her/them we always had pickled herring and black-eyed peas on NYD. To this day - 70 years later - I must have that pickled herring - it has served me well for good fortune in the coming year(s). I do skip the collard greens though. Even though I do live in the South now, just can't tolerate bitter greens. How is that going to bring happiness? Vile. Bring me more pickled herring - and some mustard sauce - or sour cream.

I grew up with chili and cornbread on Jan. 1; nothing traditional either for NYE or to "bring luck".

Fried sauerkraut balls were very popular for that holiday in the local community (a town a bit north of Cincinnati, with a strong German heritage.)

I've not paid more than $18/pound for Alaskan king crab legs, but the price must have gone up since I last bought them a couple of years ago. I would pay as much as $25/pound for them, but that would be my limit, I think. The Santa Monica Seafood Market has them, and so I might get some after NYD.

Our family tradition was to have seafood as the first thing you ate in the new year. My parents often threw a NYE party and I’d eat a piece of shrimp right after midnight. Choked it down because I didn’t like shrimp back then. Now I just open a can of tuna. If I go to bed before midnight, I leave it on the counter and have a bite first thing in the morning. Other than that, I have no plans for special food, although I am starting to get a yen for pork and sauerkraut!

We normally have whole dungeness crab but two people here don't like seafood so we are having chicken soft tacos tomorrow instead.

Haven’t planned any meal, no traditions here except must have Greek New Years bread - vasilopita - on NYD. There‘s a coin buried in there, and whoever gets it is in for a year of good luck. My MIL texted to say that Dimitra said to put lots of coins in it so everyone gets good luck. I said if that works someone would have figured it out centuries ago. Gotta get baking.

Foodonastump, we put a coin in our Epiphany pastry; I am absolutely going to put one in each piece this year!

As for NYE, we start with oysters, have meat/seafood fondue for dinner, chocolate soufflé for dessert and Champagne poured over a piece of gold, like a ring, anything.

We always had a pizza party on NYD as it was my dad’s birthday and we had people stop by all day long to wish him happy birthday. He would be 103 Jan 1 and he died Jan 2nd 1992.

Seafood ( we do seafood for every Eve I can think of!) for NYE.

New Years Day we will have Hoppin John with Kale, cornbread and latkes.

Maybe I will get stuff to make Mimosas or Bloody Mary’s.

Pork and sauerkraut here as per my Pennsylvania Dutch heritage.

Ran across this at another site regarding food to eat on NYD.

"According to my mom, it is bad luck to eat chicken on New Year’s Day, because they scratch backwards and if you do you’ll be going backwards all year long. You must eat pork, because pigs root forward with their snouts. I knew we ate pork on NYD, but I never knew why. We can’t handle another year like 2020, so no chicken. Please!"

Getting pork, ASAP! ^^^^ Choucroute garnie (pork sausage, sauerkraut and potatoes) sounds like a good idea.

It's funny, I grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch country, but never heard of the pork and sauerkraut on New Year's tradition, until an Italian friend told me about that's what you have to eat on New Year's Day.

Black eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread!

Lars, your 25 US would be about 33 CDN. The seafood shop is high in price, I know, but they are the only one for miles so I guess they can get away with it. I bought 4 oysters for my husband and 6 Digby scallops for myself for appetizers and then some mussels and prawns. So I didn't break the bank. I love crab and we catch our own Dungeness, so that does me for crab without paying King Crab prices.

Misfits just showed up, and I'm taking it as a sign... lovely big bunch of collards in the box, right on top :) So I got a batch of black eyed peas soaking, and pulled a smoked hock out of the freezer to toss into the pot tomorrow. I'll just bake cornbread instead of soda bread :)

Tonight, decided to do a ramekin style lobster thermidor with those couple tails- I sous vide them this morning. Surf up :)

Tonight having a lamb chop with pesto, garlic parmesan potatoes, salad with Greek-style dressing, hot yeast rolls with butter, and wine.

Not food related--but we bang pots and pans at midnight. It's a big thing in the neighborhood.

I had my lentils for good luck, along with a pork chop.

No NYE or New Years traditions. DH & I made a prime rib dinner. We made a lot so DH brought over two prime rib dinners to some friends of ours that are recovering from Covid. Tomorrow we'll be having ham (because I've been craving it). The friends will probably get ham tomorrow too (because what do two people do with a ham?)

Happy New Year!

We had our chicken soft tacos last night. I asked my exchange students if they liked them, one said yes and one said no. The one that said no ate 3 of them.....

Dim Sum on New Year's morning.

We did not grow up any traditions, but a southern friend brings me collards greens ever year and I always eat them on New Years Day.

Kathsgrdn ... that's too funny!

I ended up having weird food night. I had bought a lovely dessert as my specialty NYE treat. I sat down to have it and it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. In fact, I didn’t eat the last couple bites, very unusual for me. After I got in bed I started to get heartburn, also unusual for me. Darn dessert. I got up to get some Tums but remembered that I had to have fish! So I went downstairs, opened a can of tuna, ate a bite, went back upstairs and ate some Tums. I hope that was a farewell to 2020 and not a sign of things to come.

So, chicken, pork and lobster all go backwards! What about crab that goes sideways???????

Also, artemis, we completely forgot about Hogmanay! We have a bunch of shortbread sitting on the table!

I doubt the neighbors will worry about a couple of days late. ;)

@nancyjane_gardener. This is the quote, ""According to my mom, it is bad luck to eat chicken on New Year’s Day, because they scratch backwards and if you do you’ll be going backwards all year long. You must eat pork, because pigs root forward with their snouts. I knew we ate pork on NYD, but I never knew why. We can’t handle another year like 2020, so no chicken. Please!" Pigs (pork) roots forward not backwards. LOL