New Years Day Food to Attract Prosperity

Food Traditions for Health, Wealth, and Prosperity in the New Year.

From Italian roast pork served with white truffle risotto to the American South’s Hoppin’ John served with braised wild greens.

Get ready to ring in the New Year by lifting a glass of champagne and eating foods that are believed to attract prosperity, wealth and happiness.  Some even increase fertility.

Cultures around the world have rich food traditions for attracting prosperity, happiness and wealth.

Superstitious or not, food traditions are fun and another excuse to get together with friends and family

So why tempt the fates when you can whip up an easy Slow Cooker Italian Roast Pork for yummy sandwiches as the crew recovers from the New Years Eve party or watches football.

Who knows, it just might help you start the year off right and attract abundance and prosperity for the coming year.  If nothing else you’ll start the year some really good food, surrounded by family and friends.

Warning – Never serve chicken on New Years.  They scratch backward and you want to move forward in the New Year.

Pork or Pork Sausage

Pork is for progress and prosperity. It is served because pigs forage moving forward and you want to advance prosperity in the New Year.

But don’t serve chicken – chickens scratch backward – not the direction you want to go in the New Year.

Many cultures around the world eat pork on New Year’s Day to symbolize progress for the coming year.

This is where the saying “living high on the hog”comes from.

Pork Recipes For Progress and Prosperity in 2020

Easy Slow Cooker Italian Roast Pork Recipe

Grilled Jerk Pork

Ginger Raspberry Glazed Pork Tenderloin

Sesame Soy Grilled Pork Tenderloin

Pizza

Throw a “Make Your Own Pizza Party”

Apple and Brie Pizza

Pear and Roast Garlic Pizza

Rice, Risotto or Lentils

Rice or Lentil represent coins, and while cooking, rice grows in the pot the way that you’d like your wealth to multiply in the new year.

Rice Recipes for the New Year

White Truffle Risotto

New Orleans Red Beans and Rice with Tasso

Coconut Rice with Curried Bananas and Cashews

Three Bean Edamame Salad

Hoppin’ John

This classic American South dish is a one-pot meal of black-eyed peas, thick cut bacon, and rice, and is believed to ensure wealth and good luck in the upcoming year.  The peas symbolize coins, pork is for “living high off the hog” and rice grows when cooked, representing abundance.  Served with a side of greens (for financial health) and cornbread ( the color of gold).

Recipes

Hoppin’ John

Spinach, Bacon and Cheddar Cornbread

Braised Wild Greens Featuring Swiss Chard

Grapes

In Spain, Mexico, and other countries they celebrate the coming of the new year by eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve.  Give it a try – eat one grape for each stroke of midnight to bring luck for the 12 months ahead. (It’s not as easy as it sounds.)

Pomegranates

Seeds are associated with fertility and fertility with abundant life.

In Greece, they hurl whole pomegranates to the floor to release a flood of seeds that symbolize life and abundance.

They also said to represent wealth because the seed are the color of jewels.

Fish

Ever heard the expression there are “plenty of fish in the sea”.  Fish has symbolized abundance in many cultures for centuries.  You may not eat the scales but it is said that the silvery scales of the fish symbolize silver coins, and eating fish on New Years will bring financial prosperity.

Fish Recipes For Prosperity

Cioppino

Crab Stuffed Halibut with Pears & Brie

New Orleans Cajun Seafood Gumbo

Fish Tacos with Mango Salsa

Sesame Crusted Seared Ahi Tuna

Greens

Greens look like money and as the new Year begins we eat greens to attract money in the New year

So toss yourself a salad or try these

Braised Wild Greens

Ring Shaped Foods

Another reason to serve donuts on New Year’s morning…

Serve donuts, bagels or anything else with a hole in the center like a bundt cake.

Cake

Bake a cake with a gold coin inside.  The person that gets the coin will have extra wealth for the year.

Recipes to Try

White Chocolate Cheesecake with Blackberries and Raspberries

How to Make a King Cake | Mardi Gras Recipe

Figs

Eat figs on New Years if you are hoping to become pregnant.  Figs represent fertility.

Camembert with Fig Jam and Pistachios Beggars Purse

Fig and Goat Cheese Crostini

Soba Noodles

Soba noodles symbolize long life and must be slurped whole, without breaking them or chewing them to gain longevity.

Super Simple Asian Peanut Noodles

Fresh Baked Bread

Bread dough rises and doubles or triples in size, representing abundance.  Just what we all want for the New Year.

Bread Recipes

Strawberry Pumpkin Seed Bread

Pueblo Butternut Squash Piñon Nut Sweetbread

How to Make Irish Soda Bread

Spinach, Bacon and Cheddar Cornbread