Looking for Luck in 2021? These New Year's Day Dishes Deliver Fortune *and* Flavor

Some New Year's superstitions say that eating the right foods at the beginning of the year can help bring you an abundance of luck. So if you're looking to turn things around (or keep them going strong) in 2021, you can do a whole lot worse than cooking up a big New Year's brunch filled with all the lucky foods.

Luckily (see what we did there?) our friends at Delish put together a list of lucky New Year's Foods — and it's filled with delicious things. There are black eyed peas, of course, but also fish, noodles, pork, and even grapes, all suggestions from a variety of different cultures and traditions. While you could pick and choose, we say cover your bases and try as many lucky foods as you can! After a year like 2020, we need all the luck we can get.

Below, we've rounded up some best New Years Day lunch ideas that may throw some prosperity your way. We've got options here for lunch, brunch, drinks and dessert. The most well-known New Year's Day meal is, of course, the Southern tradition of collard greens, black-eyed peas, and cornbread, but we've got recipes that'll give delicious twists on all of those, like a collard slaw and a tangy black-eyed peas salad. Check out our New Year's Day lunch recipes here, and if you don't feel like cooking, see if there's a restaurant open on New Year's Day near you that's serving up these lucky plates.