Hi, Nichole.In the Eastern European tradition, we have to have at least 12 dishes for Christmas Eve, such as cabbage with mushrooms, fried fish, raw fish - herring, potatoes, mushroom soup, ginger bread,  poppy seed cake or pudding, wheat seed with  honey, nuts, sweets, small cookies, apples and many other things if one wishes.  It is usually a very big feast.  We put a fish scale under the tablecloth for good luck.