HAPPY NEW YEAR

Ring in the New Year with great food, good company, and plenty of compassion! Whether you’re hosting a party, sharing appetizers with friends, or planning a festive dinner, plant-based choices make it easy to celebrate in delicious style. Explore recipes, party ideas, and inspiration for a New Year’s Eve that starts the year on a kinder note.

Celebrate with compassion all year long with a meat-free, plant-based, diet.

People celebrate the New Year in all sorts of ways. By eating certain foods, wearing certain colors, and beyond – there are lots of traditions that are and always have been vegan-friendly!

Denmark: Brake plates

On New Year’s Eve Danes throw plates they have saved up over the year at the front doors of loved ones for good luck. More plates, more luck!

Colombia and Peru: Couch Potatoes

It is said you can predict your financial year by putting three potatoes under your couch- one peeled, one half peeled, one unpeeled. At midnight you grab one. No skin means no money, half peeled means a normal year, and the unpeeled potato means you will have good fortune in the New Year!

Italy: Lenticchie

Italians eat lentils at midnight! This tradition is said to date back to ancient Rome. The round legumes are representative of coins, bringing prosperity in the New Yea

Brazil: Wear white and jump waves

In Brazil people wear white for goodluck and peace. Some will also head down to the beach and jump seven waves. You get a wish for each wave!

Philippines: 12 round fruits

Filipinos celebrate by eating 12 round fruits at midnight. Apples for peace and harmony, grapes for money, pineapples for good fortune, and oranges for the gift of gold.

Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico: Yellow underwear

Wearing yellow underwear is supposed to bring good luck, but there’s a catch! They need to be gifted to you for it to work.

Venezuela and Colombia: Walk outside with a suitcase-

Walk either around your home or the block with a suitcase on New Years if you are hoping for opportunities to travel!

South America and Caribbean Countries: Throw a bucket of water out your window

Throwing a bucket of water out your window or door is throwing out all of last year’s tears and suffering and bringing in renewal.

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