Here’s to many years and a Happy New Year @SilvyC ! Of all the international traditions for the Christmas and New Year holidays, we Bulgarians come closest to the traditions of the Poles.
Here’s how we celebrate Christmas Eve in Bulgaria
It is important to have a certain number of dishes on the table in the evening. Most often they are 7, 9 or 12, which symbolize respectively the seven days of the week, the nine months of pregnancy or the months of the year. Home-made bread with a coin, which is traditionally broken by the head of the family, must be present. Whoever lands the piece with the coin will be the luckiest in the coming year.
Bulgarian traditional dishes for the Christmas Eve table are necessarily lean: sarmi, bean salad, stew, stuffed peppers, nut crackers, pickles, wheat, oshav, pumpkin. In addition, honey, walnuts, a variety of fruits and wine are added.
For the new year, we Bulgarians greet each other with the greeting “For many years” and Cheers 
Best Regards!