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Happy New Year
Throughout the world, New Year’s Eve is celebrated with a meal in the company of friends and family. In some places, this means eating specific “lucky” foods. In Spain, Portugal, and much of Latin America (such as Colombia), for example, it’s 12 grapes or raisins, and in Italy, 12 spoonfuls of lentils—one with each of the 12 chimes of the clock at midnight.
The French usher in the best New Year with a stack of pancakes. Germans prefer marzipan shaped into a pig for luck, whereas in the Netherlands, people eat doughnuts and ring-shaped foods. Estonians feast as many as 7, 9, or even 12 times on New Year’s Eve, as they believe for each meal consumed, the person gains the strength of that many men the following year.
Across the U.S. South, communities dig into collard greens and black-eyed peas for luck and prosperity on New Year’s Day. Fun fact: Collard greens are chosen for their color—the green symbolizes money. Source: AFAR
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It is fun to read this Sandee! Happy new year! 🙌🤗🎉🎉
I agree, my friend. So many different traditions around the world. Hugs. 🙂
Glad to read, Thanks a lot for sharing.
Happy New Year, Best wishes for 2026. Greetings.
Happy New Year to you and yours. 🙂
Bob just asked yesterday are we having black eyes? when we married he had never even heard of black eye peas, or eaten greens… now he loves that meal. I gave him greens but did not cook the peas because I love them and they don’t love me… I enjoyed reading what others do for food on the New Year.
I love greens and was raised on them. Delicious. Happy New Year, Sandra. Big healing hugs all around and scritches to handsome Beau. 🙂
We will be having black eyed peas tomorrow morning – since I was a little girl we ALWAYS had them and I’ve carried on that tradition. I love traditions……and I also love the idea that a NEW YEAR is upon us – a new start.
Happy New Year to everyone…………………..we deserve it! Hugs, Pam and Teddy
I love traditions too. Happy New Year to you and yours, Pam. Hugs to you and scritches to handsome Teddy. 🙂
Interesting traditions. In these parts pork and sauerkraut is the traditional New Years day meal.
Sounds good to me. Happy New Year, Ann. Love and hugs to you and lots of scritches to Gibbs. 🙂
I love reading all of the New Year’s traditions. My favorite would be donuts!
I like the donuts too. Delicious. Happy New Year to you both. 🙂
I’ve heard of the collard greens and black eyed peas, but not the others. I have both raisins and grapes in the house, so, if I remember, I might just eat one or the other. Happy New Year to you, Sandee! Alana ramblinwitham
These are only a few and I found them fascinating. Happy New Year, Alana. Hugs. 🙂
I love black eyed peas, and will be having them tomorrow. Since I was a child, having black eyed peas has been a tradition. Happy New Year’s Eve to you and yours, Sandee.🥳
Hubby and I don’t have any traditions to ring in the new year. I have no idea why. Happy New Year, my friend. Hugs. 🙂
Every place, everyone, has their own tradition. Ours is to be in bed by ten as usual and hope the moron behind us doesn’t set off fireworks all night long. It’s going to be pretty cold which may keep him from doing too much. Happy last day of 2025!
We go to bed at 10 as well. We hope the fireworks don’t happen here either. Happy New Year. Scritches to the precious pups. 🙂
I’ve got my lentils ready!
Good for you. Happy New Year. Scritches to the kitties. 🙂
This is fascinating!
I’d go for 12 cookies, but don’t think I could eat them as one for every toll of the bell.
May resort to raisins.
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The raisins would be far easier, but the cookies would be more delicious. Happy New Year. 🙂
We will be having some black-eyed peas tomorrow. 🙂 Thanks for hosting. Wishing you, Zane, Lil’Bit and Squeaker a happy and healthy 2026! XO
We don’t have any traditions here to ring in the new year. Why? I don’t know. Happy New Year. 🙂
Sandee, Grandpaw just bought two dougnuts, one for him and one for Granny and an apple-turnover, that’s our tradition too😹Double Pawkisses for you, Zane and the kitties for a sparkling New Year’s Eve🎇🐾😽🎆
I love your tradition. I would love to join you. Love and hugs to you and Double Pawkisses to the precious kitties. 🙂
I love hearing about the New Year traditions. Happy New Year’s Eve!
I knew some and others I didn’t know. Happy New Year. 🙂
I love all these, Sandee. There are so many New Year’s Traditions that speak to me of the hope for the future. I love black eyed peas. Happy New Year Sandee. Blessings to you this Wordless Wednesday, dear friend!
Many speak to me too, Suzette. Happy New Year. Love and hugs, my friend. 🙂
Thank you, Sandee. Peace to you!
In Wombania, we celebrate with extra chocolate and wine gums, of course.
Happy New Year, Sandee!
Now you’re talking. I can go with that. Happy New Year. 🙂
What great traditions, thanks so much for sharing them!
I agree with you. It’s good to know how others celebrate ringing in the new year. 🙂
This was super interesting, Sandee. Our mom’s roots are Dutch and Irish. Did you find anything interesting about Irish New Year’s traditions? Mom suspects alcohol is probably involved. Wishing all of you a very happy new year. May 2026 treat you well. XOCK, angels Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona & Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer, Kizmet, Audrey, Raleigh, Gibbs & Tali
That’s the only thing I found on this subject. There are so many countries and so many different traditions. Love and hugs all around. Happy New Year. 🙂
Very interesting. For us Polacks it’s kielbasa and saurkraut, for a prosperous future. Happy New Year whatever you do! 🤣😎🙃
I love the way you ring in the new year. Yummy. Happy New Year. 🙂
It’s always fun to read different traditions. Happy New Year!
I love it too. There are so many different and wonderful things we celebrate around the world. 🙂
Great to hear about how others celebrate New Years ~
hugs and love to you and family ~ ^_^
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I thought it was the perfect post for today. Love and hugs to you and Ziggy. 🙂
I love you my Only. I am looking forward to our 30th year together. I love our Kitties too and miss our Little Bit best dog ever. Your Loving Husband.
I love you too my Only. On to our 30th year together. I’m a most lucky woman to have such a wonderful husband. 🙂
We are definitely major rule-breakers today. There is a defining image that stands on its own, but also a LOT of words 😹
Happy New Year, and wishing you the best for 2026!
I’m a rule breaker too and words are sometimes needed. Happy New Year. 🙂
YEP here in Dixie it is all about blackeyed peas and collard greens…of which I have both…pork chops will go along with them.
Happy New Year’s Eve to you Sandee, Zane, Squeaker and Lil’Bit
Cecilia and Bryan
All of my family is from the south, but none of us have any new years traditions. Happy New Year. Love and hugs to you, my sweet friend. 🙂
I didn’t realize you had Southern roots, what State?
Hugs Cecilia
Well more mid country. My dad was born in Kansas and my mother was born in Texas. Most of the family had a southern drawl. Hugs. 🙂
While working at NCSU a linguist professor asked for volunteers to participate in her study about accents in NC. Of course I just had to volunteer it was such fun. I even learned a lot about the variety of accents in NC from
Coast to Mountains and in between.
Hugs C
all the best in 2026, dear Sandee.
Happy New Year to you, my friend. 🙂
Happy New Year from all of us at Brian’s Home ~ Forever!
Happy New Year from Zane, our kitties and me. 🙂
Such wonderful culinary customs. I love how these cultural acknowledgments can reinforce our kindness toward others. Happy New Year’s Eve, dear Sandee. Wishing you a year of good health, happiness, and unforgettable moments in 2026.
Wishing you and yours the same, my friend. Big hug to you and lots of scritches to handsome Wilson. 🙂
In some parts of the south, it’s cabbage for money, but any of the greens will do it. Happy New Year to you and Mr. Zane, may 2026 bring you many blessings. Scritches to Lil’ Bit and Squeaker.
Happy New Year my wonderful friend. Love and hugs. 🙂
We love learning about those New Year customs from around the world. Happy New Year! XO
I did too. Happy New Year, my friend. 🙂
I enjoyed reading about all these New Year’s traditions!
Fun to know how food brings luck and joy.
Here’s to a happy and lucky 2026 for everyone! 🥳
I loved them, too. Happy New Year, Veronica. 🙂
I didn’t know any of that!
Wishing you and yours a Wonderful New Year, Sandee.
I love these interesting tidbits. Happy New Year, my friend. 🙂
I hadn’t heard about some of these traditions before. We still keep the Portuguese tradition of eating 12 raisins at midnight 🙂 Happy New Year Sandee.
I love all the wonderful traditions. Happy New year, Sami. 🙂
The Estonians one is a bit nuts…I’d be so sick!
So happy to read this, as we missed it preparing for New Year’s!!!LOVE LOVE LOVE reading your wisdom and fun all week long. A beatiful year is begiinning…we can feel it. Change is comin’….
Thank you. Glad you liked this. HappyNewYear. 🙂
Happy new year, dear Sandee! These are some interesting facts. I like the thought of eating pancakes and the folks in the Netherlands I’m safe to say is DH’s kind of people with their donut eating. He loves donuts!
Well, I’m up to my eyeballs with technical problems on my blog. I don’t think it’s effecting things on the visitor’s side but behind the scene not so much fun. I’m working with my host site. It’s taking a long time because they’re doing this through email. I use to be able to chat live with them for quicker resolve. This is just one more reason why I plan to change host sites soon. Anyway, I’m behind with responding to comments on my blog and making return visits, but I’ll do my best to get around when I can. Have a blessed weekend, my dear! xo
Happy New Year, my friend. Sorry you’re having technical problems. I know you will sort this out. Love and hugs, my friend. 🙂
So sorry, Sandee. My New Year’s Eve blog was not only NOT wordless, but an 8 minute read with only a couple of pics.
Happy New Gregorian Year! The Andean, Bahai, Buddhists, Chinese, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Native Americans all have different ideas about it!😂
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Happy New Year to you both. 🙂
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My mother cooked a pork and sauerkraut pinwheel every New Year’s Day based on our German heritage. I did it a few times long after she stopped. It’s delicious but my husband is not a fan and it was quite a task for one person to enjoy. lol While Russo/Hungarian by birth, he prefers kimchee. Funny, huh? Best wishes, my dear, and Happy New Year!
I would have helped you with the pork and sauerkraut. Hugs. 🙂
My mom’s side of the family is southern so we always had greens and black eyed peas, which only 2 people in our family of 9 liked, my mom and one of my brothers. The rest of us loved the greens, but we thought black eyed peas just tasted like burnt beans. Lol. My mom insisted that we all take at least one bite, and of course we did, but only my brother has carried on this tradition. – A tradition I still do tho is opening the front and back doors and letting the old year out and the new year in! – Happy New Year! xoxo
I don’t like black eyed peas either. Tasteless as far as I’m concerned. Love you, Karen. Happy New Year. 🙂
Happy New Year Sandy! This is SOOOO interesting! We’re in Canada but my human mom is originally from Tokyo, Japan. She told me that people over there eat Soba (Buckwheat) noodle bowl dish on new years eve which she almost forget about it until now. So she had to google the reason why… Someone say sauerkraut? That’s her favourite. hahaha
Happy New Year to you, too. Some many interesting traditions to ring in the new year. I love sauerkraut too. 🙂
Happy New Year! I’ve iced in the south most of my life, but hate collards! 😹 I like French idea of pancakes! Yum! ❤️ Kit, Kat, Rocky & Cali
Happy New Year, Kit. Scritches to the kitties. 🙂
Very interesting how other people eat different things for luck on New Year. We’ve always had the black-eyed peas. But we have them quite often anyway, and also collards quite often, not just on the holiday. 🙂
We don’t eat anything special, but I love learning about those that do. 🙂