The New Year is turning out to be a lucky one

I had a great New Year's Day with the family. We ate the "good luck" foods for the New Year and it looks like it worked. Now I am not one to be superstitious but maybe this year will turn out better for me. If you are interested the "good luck" foods were ham and brussel sprouts. The story goes that you eat pork or ham to "boar ahead" in the New Year. Don't eat poultry since they "scratch backward". The brussel sprouts were our substitute for sauerkraut the symbol of money. In German families the dinner would be pork and sauerkraut.