New Year's Traditional Foods

My mother will even call me to remind me to make that pot of lentil soup! I have some right now in my freezer just in case I forget.

Pork n kraut for good luck on New Year’s Day.
We usually have shrimp n steak the eve before.

Usually black eyed peas and some type of leafy greens, with the rest of menu varying.

When I use to live in Canada, my family would always gather around a turkey. New Year’s Eve was always with friends.

In France, New Year’s Eve is still with friends and we don’t gather with the family the next day. Everybody stays at home. Maybe it’s because we attend a Christmas eve supper, chritmas lunch and dinner at my husband’s mom’s with his close family (10-15 people), then another huge lunch with the extended family (50 people) between Chritmas and New Year’s.Christmas meal involves a starteroften a “verrine“, foie gras, scallops or snails as second course, then meat or fish with veggies and rice or patatoes as main course, salad, bread and plate of cheese as fourth course, then at last dessert. We do about three meals like that in less than 3 days. During those days, it seems you get out of table to have an “apero” then start all over again, go to bed, and do the same the next day.