Happy new year, no black eyed peas here!

(Jill F.) #1

I love how every new year everyone carbs up for “good luck” with health and financial wealth for new year. Here in south Texas that includes ham, black eyed peas, cabbage, cornbread, and dont forget all the pies and sweet tea too.

I used to eat it all, every year. Black eyed peas and cornbread was one of my faves, not just on new years but anytime! Yesterday I ate a rib eye, salad, and steamed veggies drowning in real butter. No carbs for me other than the ones in the veggies all day. I love how good I felt and how well I slept, 1 year in and I am still loving my keto life!
What did you eat to celebrate the new year? Happy 2020!

(bulkbiker) #2

I started the new year with a hard dry fast for 32 hours… hey ho…

(Rebecca ) #3

This is interesting…I was wondering how people in different regions ate for New Year’s Eve/Day. We are in Pennsylvania and have pork roast slow cooked in sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. I had my portion of pork and kraut but no potatoes.
I was born and raised in Nebraska, where we had ham (from Christmas) and Navy beans, and lived a few years in Alabama where we had ham, black eyed peas, turnip greens and corn bread. I think the Pennsylvania tradition is my favorite!

(Jack Bennett) #4

That seems to be a big thing in Ohio as well. I think it’s a German heritage thing. I did a bone-in pork loin roast with sauerkraut. The rest of the family also had beets but I skipped that, and added some sour cream for the creaminess.

I was pretty happy with the sear, but the instant pot recipe I used needed a bunch of extra time to cook it all the way through.

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#5

Driving home from our trip my hubby chatted with his mom. She said she was making the black eyes peas, ham, cabbage, cornbread also. I just smiled when I read your post :slight_smile:

She is one of those tradition follow type people. Us, nah, we don’t do any of this type of thing.

We don’t eat anything to celebrate the New Year. We just say Happy New Year and let it go from there LOL

(Full Metal KETO AF) #6

The common theme is cabbage and pork, traditional German culture considered not eating these foods on New Year’s Day bad luck. The cabbage or kraut represents wealth (money), which is cooked together with pork loin or ribs. Sometimes with drop dumplings added. So yes, Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio are areas where lots of German immigrants settled and those traditions have taken on local color but at the core are still the same. :cowboy_hat_face:

(Jill F.) #7

We ate some purple cabbage chopped up in our salad, that is as far as our tradition carried this year!

#8

I never ever saw black-eyed peas, I think. We have different looking beans here, some very pretty ones too.

We traditionally eat lentils here (Hungary). My SO actually cooked a lot, he loves it. I find it tasty too, I just eat close to no amount of legumes (except green peas, mostly in my soup) since I went low-carb about 9 years ago. Sometimes I get nostalgic and eat more, it can’t hurt me too much but not ideal.

I ate various things (even lentils this time) and took a break even from keto in the end, let alone my carnivore trial. I did nothing too crazy though and I am back on track already as I like this better, the food and other things. My rebellious self is pleased and knows better now so I will behave in the near future, I will stick to keto at least, every day, with a carnivore first meal (my second meal is often negligible or non-existent anyway but I try to keep that carnivore or close to that too).

Roasted piglet is traditional and about the best thing ever but we ate fish. Maybe next year.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #9

Born & raised in East Texas so I did have 1/2 cup black eyed peas with cabbage in the form of ketoed cole slaw, and uncured ham. The tradition is “peas for the coin, cabbage for the long green”. YMMV.

Never was a fan of sweet tea, hated the stuff, still do and I don’t do grains nor pies at all anymore. Glad I gave up all of that along with Texas.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #10

Heard about black eyed peas from my neighbor for the first time. She does them with bacon. She’s from south Dakota.

#11

I ate plenty of black eyed peas on New Year’s Day. Lovely with a lot of ham. Just one day and it is a great tradition for me. We had to have some shipped to us inadvance so we could have them while I was living in Hong Kong. I could miss a turkey on thanksgiving (once in Mongolia we had planned to eat horse on T-day but some Americans spent a bunch of money to bring in some of the precious traditional bird)…but I just can’t see NYD withou BEP!

(Susan) #12

I was fasting yesterday as well, doing the IDM protocol (3 -44 hour fasts a week) so back on track and no more holiday shenanigans, although I was pretty good, only a few little naughty moments.

Happy New year to you all =).