10 Lucky Foods For The New Year: Food Files
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.'” Alfred Lord Tennyson
10 Lucky Foods For The New Year: Food Files
10 Lucky Foods For The New Year: Food Files – Happy New YEAR 2016!
1. Black eyed beans and/or Lentils for prosperity
2. Buttered bread for nourishment (Ireland)
3. 12 Grapes/Raisins before midnight (New Year’s Eve) for great fortune (Spain)
4. Greens like Spinach, Kale, Collards remind us of green money and health and drive away evil spirits
HAPPY LUCKY NEW YEAR! Are you ready to ride into the New Year with all the luck you can muster? Can you believe we are at the end of another glorious year? When did all the time fly? If you live in some parts of the world, 2016 is almost here and you will soon be celebrating the fact that you have been blessed with another year to make a definitive and positive impact on the world. If you live in my part of the world, in EST or PST, you still have time to reflect on the ending year, make plans, and celebrate the new one.
One tradition that my family and others around the world honor, at the beginning of a new year, is to celebrate the occasion with good food, great company, and love and laughter. We eat specific foods that are believed to bring health, happiness, prosperity and more into our lives. Above and below, I’ve added a note with each of the highlighted 10 Lucky Foods so you’ll know what eating them can bring into your home in the New Year. Make sure to cook those beans or lentils well, and enjoy the grapes, desserts and all the rest for some vim and vigor in the new year. On December 31st, eat 12 grapes to cleanse the palate and wave goodbye to 2015. Hello 2016!
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell & E. M. Forster
10 Lucky Foods For The New Year: Food Files
5. Round Foods – desserts, citrus fruits, wave off the old and welcome the new into our sunny lives
6. Whole Fish on New Year’s Day is a sign of great prosperity. Fish is a prosperous symbol in Asia
7. Chocolate is always great as a digestive and a luxury treat signifying a year of pampering.
Did you know round foods (aka desserts) are 1 of the 10 lucky foods? How could we ever start a new season in our lives without a bit of chocolate? Or a nicely baked pie? Come back soon for my Pecan Pie recipe to help you celebrate with a delightful dessert that your friends and family would love. All the 10 lucky foods will give you the extra edge and joy at your New Year’s party celebration. So share the goodwill and good food.
The New Year is the perfect time to give yourself a sweet treat and then throw yourself into your exercise routine; like it or not, we all need some exercise to stay healthy. Please don’t tell us not to have any dessert because the secret to a healthy, happy, and balanced life is to enjoy everything in moderation. In addition to enjoying our food, let’s plan to do things that will be Eco-friendly, reduce our carbon footprint, and lift us and others up. Go do it! Here’s to a phenomenal and very LUCKY 2016!
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“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.” Marcus Aurelius
10 Lucky Foods For The New Year: Food Files – Happy New YEAR 2016!
10 Lucky Foods For The New Year: Food Files
8. Pork as a way to stay focused in moving forward with our goals and desires.
9. Long Noodles offers longevity and eating an unbroken long noodle is extra luck. (Asia)
10. Cornbread – the sweet, sunny, yellow, satisfying food augurs prosperity on all fronts.
Are you ready to leap into 2016? Well, have no fear about what to eat or not eat… For those of us who don’t eat meat, don’t be disheartened! You can substitute another protein and/or eat more of the other 9 foods and still have a phenomenal year. Keep in mind that food is for nourishment first and then, we focus on all the great blessings it will bring into our lives. So eat with a joyful heart and hold empowering affirmations in your mind… Don’t forget that no matter what we wish for, if we don’t move our feet, we limit our chances. Enjoy the sustenance these healthy foods offer and have a Happy New Year! Have a Healthy, Happy, and Prosperous New Year!
Positive Motivation Tip: Celebrate the New Year with good food and company and keep the spirit of goodwill throughout 2016
PHOTO CREDITS/ATTRIBUTIONS: All Photos black-eyed beans, butter bread, grapes, Kale, Ornamental kale, Pork, Long life noodles, Cornbread, Chilli w/ Cornbread, Round citrus fruits, round desserts, round cake, whole fish, chocolate, chocolates, via Wikipedia.
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Elizabeth Obih-Frank
Mirth and Motivation
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ohhhhh I see pecan pie 😍
Hahaha! I see it too and we love that one in our household. Happy New Year to you and yours Andy! <3
So fun! I will be sure to eat many of these foods in the next 2 days! And I will give my dog a few of her freeze dried pork treats so she can get in on the good luck and stay focused on her goals….(?) 🙂
Great food, friendships and family I am blessed. Celebrating the New Year by giving thanks that I am able to be here to see another year. Have a blessed Holiday.
I’m loving all of the prosperity foods. I’d love to start using healthier ingredients this year. I should really start using more greens in my recipes.
I almost dived into the pictures. Pecan pie is a lucky food? I mean, it’s always made me feel lucky to be alive when I’m eating it!
I think I might try all of these foods to ensure the best of luck in 2016!
The only one I knew about was black eyed peas. I use them in Hoppin’ John and make that for New Year’s Day every year!
Oh my…I really need to back away from this table….
Yes, I am definitely ready to jump into 2016 – with or without any of these lucky foods. Happy New Year to you and yours!
i love spinach! and chocolate! happy to hear that they are lucky food
So interesting. I didn’t know about all of these foods, but my mother used to make a pot of blackeyed peas and some cornbread every New Year’s eve for good luck. I thought it was just her…lol.
I never knew about the lucky foods. and its fun to know this.
12hours from now…we will be celebrating new years eve (from where I am now). Round food brings luck thats what they say so we will be having a lot of what you featured here in this great post 🙂
I never knew that grapes were considered lucky. The more you know!
i so badly want to eat pork haha but we dont have pork here in dubai and totally miss eating it! but so far i got everything covered for 2016 thanks for the lists!
I am having 12 grapes before midnight and fish on Friday. Should be a prosperous year.
I love celebrating with family and indulging in delicious food 🙂 Happy New Year x
I will bring the new year in with chocolate. I want a year of pampering.
I can totally get behind the round food/dessert and chocolate ideas! I should have an awesome year lol
I think I need to set up a smorgasbord of all these foods! I knew about several that are considered good luck, but I learned about some new ones! Thanks!
I’m all for sunny round citrusy happy oranges. 🙂 Happy New Year to you!!
Wow. I had no idea about so many of these lucky foods. I need to stock up so 2016 will be a great year. All the best to you!
I’ve never heard of Lucky Foods. I am going on a Liver shrinking diet to prepare for an operation so no more nice food for a while. 🙂 I enjoyed this post though and the chocolate looks good.
What a great list of food traditions for the new year! We always have our pork, black-eyed peas, greens, cornbread and pecan pie (a staple around here LOL)! There were several traditions listed though that I have never heard of before!
Buttered Bread and the Spinach are something new to me. Although in my country, round fruits are considered auspicious and so do sweets that are sticky as they symbolize togetherness of family.
ooh i did not know that black eyed beans are included in the lucky foods, nice post here 🙂
There are so many “lucky” food in Asian New Year celebrations. 12 different fruits to symbolize abundance for every month of the new year. Sticky rice cake to symbolize family togetherness, fish for prosperity, a rice bin and salt container both full to the brim, noodles for long life.
Chocolate is the perfect digestive. Hahah Great! Good excuse to eat more 🙂 I love chocolates
Happy New Year, Eliz! Wishing you a prosperous and wonderful 2016. I really miss cornbread, they just don’t have them here 😀
How fascinating! I had never heard about some of these traditional New Year’s food. I hope you enjoyed your time with family and best of luck in the New Year!
I am glad that 2016 is here. I don’t eat a number of the annual tried and true traditional foods to ring in or foster a new year, but here’s to having a prosperous one.
i adore pecan pie…and the grapes hahaha I am a tooty fruity, can’t live without fruits 🙂
Happy New Year to you and yours! I hope these and every kind of food you have during this year will help make it the best one yet! Namaste
Theese photos are making me drool right now. Happy new year!
Well, so far I’ve done great with #7(Chocolate)! Happy New Year!
Yes!!! for chinese or Asian we believe in eating whole fish during auspicious celebrations like New Year, Chinese New Year, Wedding and 60th Birthdays. This is kind of tradition here. Thanks for sharing other part of the world Lucky Foods as well. Perhaps I can try the Spanish way to eat 12 Grapes/Raisins before midnight of New Year’s Eve for great fortune.
all my favorites hope they bring me health
Oh. These foods look really good. I never knew there were such things as ‘lucky foods’.
All of these look so nice! Happy New Year <3
These foods are look so good especially the sweets! For me I love to eat anything with some sweetness while drinking coffee.
ah i never knew some foods are considered as lucky! i like the 12 grapes one!
Glad to know the list of lucky foods. Some of this are my favorites.
Happy New Year to you! In my culture we eat soup Joumou (squash soup) with our family to celebrate the New year and to also celebrate Haiti’s Independence Day!
Soo cool! From the Caribbean, we have the grapes and the oranges for luck. I am so pleased to see pecan pie on there too: LOVE it!!!
I completely agree that moderation is key…not deprivation! My One Word for 2016 is Balance and I’ll be working hard to create Balance in several different areas of my life (including food and exercise) in 2016!
This list is soo cool! From the Caribbean, we do the grapes and oranges for luck. I really like that pecan pie (my favorite) is part of the whole thing!
I’m a southern girl and you MUST have black eyed peas on January 1st.
I love chocolates and I love grapes, so maybe I’ll have a really lucky year! Happy New Year!
Grapes, oranges & chocolates are perfect anytime. Good to know this. I made a chocolate red velvet cake yesterday for new years which also happens to be my guy’s b’day!
Grapes, oranges and chocolates are good for me any day! Good to know this. I made a chocolate red velvet cake yesterday for new years which also happens to be my guy’s b’day!
I believe there is no such thing as luck. BUT….all of the foods you mentioned are yummy 🙂
I love desserts, I usually order them first before my entree. It embarrasses my brother but it makes my tummy very happy. I have a confession, pecan pie is my weakness!
I never knew about these! Chinese has loads of such lucky foods. Now I know about the Western side too! Haha… Gonna grab some greens soon! I got chocolates on New Year though 🙂
Good to see I’ve been eating some lucky foods already. Chocolate all the way 😉
That pecan pie! I need to try this OMG!
We love grapes in our familY. Happy New year and best wishes in 2016! Keep up the great content on your blog!
We had some of the foods in your list during New Year’s Day, but we weren’t able to join the rest of the family because hubby and son got sick. Happy 2016!
learned something new this year from your post I never knew about the grapes or raisins before midnight will add this next year
I’ve never heard of the grapes before midnight one. Does wine count?
Grapes & raisins are always are favorite snacks in our home. Healthy and delicious.
This is really interesting, Happy New Year!
I have heard of some of these but love that some of my favorites are also listed. Now I have a reason to eat them!
I love the whole history of black eyed peas on New Years in the African American AND Korean cultures.
Didn’t know they have such thing as good luck food. I will grab some for the house.
We should have these 10 lucky foods for the new year. Thanks for letting us know.