Wanna know what's best food for the New Year to be lucky?
Millions of believers from different countries of different beliefs and traditions welcome the new year with the following:

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Lucky Foods To Prepare and Eat On New Year's Eve
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Pig's front feet is also a
recommendation for a progressive life ahead. Swedish and Filipinos
(mostly in the Visayas) are known for Pig's Feet preparation on New
Years Eve. The popular way of cooking Pig's Feet in the Visayas region
is called "Humbang Baboy".
Italians and Americans do believe the fat content of the pork signifies wealth and prosperity.
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- Fruits - In Spanish Countries - 12 grapes
are eaten just before midnight, one for each strike of the clock. Good
luck will come to those who finish the grapes before the final
stroke." 12 grapes represents 12 months of the year.
Turkish associates pomegranates with abundance and fertility.
As part of the Philippine New Year
Tradition, Filipinos make it sure they have 12 different kinds of
rounded fruits on the table as the clock strikes 12:00 midnight. |
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- Greens - Cabbage, Lettuce, kale and
chard symbolizes money ($) because of their green color and its shape is
like folded money. It is believed that the more money shaped green
leafy vegetable one eats, the more chances of striking a good fortune in
the coming days and years.
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- Leggumes - Consuming beans and black eyed
peas on New Years Eve may bring you some riches and wealth on the coming
years because these coin shaped leggumes symbolizes money.
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- Fish - Germans are known to place fish
scales in their wallets for good luck because fish scales symbolizes
money due to its coin shaped appearance. The Swedish prepares different
types of fish while the Japanese are known to eat herring roe for
fertility, shrimp for long life, and dried sardines for a good
harvest. Sardines were once used to fertilize rice fields.
Caviar and champagne made from grapes is a good match.
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- Sweets - Rounded and ring shaped cakes are prepared and eaten
- Sweden and Norway have similar rituals in
which they hide a whole almond in rice pudding—whoever gets the nut is
guaranteed great fortune in the new year.
In Greece sweet breads often contain coins, and the person who gets the slice with the coin will have good luck that year.
In England Christmas puddings often contain coins or small trinkets which symbolize what will happen to you in the new year.
In Mexico, a traditional King's Cake
or Rosca de Reyes contains a doll, and the person who gets the doll
becomes king for the day and must find a woman to be his queen.
In Holland the New Year's treat is
Olie Bollen or "oil balls" which are a type of puffy doughnut filled
with apples, raisins and currants.
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- Noodles - It is Japan's tradition to eat
noodles without breaking the the noodle thread for long life. Buddhist
temples bells are rung 108 times.
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