Deepavali Mithai

Many restaurants and hotel dessert chefs and traditional Indian dessert shops are trotting out boxes of mithai and festive snacks. The friends got us a box of Deepavali mithai, and the dog also received a box of Dee-Paw-Vali treatos! Wahhhh. What an absolute treat for us.

The friends stressed that the restaurant made this with 'less sugar' and it's all vegan. Perfect. At least I won't get IBS and I won't keel over from the sugar high. I will take ONE sweet, for luck, and to thank the friends for their thoughts.

Blueberry and saffron went well together. I skipped the flavor with rose and gulkand. I dislike rose-anything. The gula melaka pandan was fun! Of course the man loved the peanut butter and cashew. The combination of fig, dates, mulberry and nuts is my favorite.

The dog. Her festive box included packs of mini murukku, Pawju Pawli (inspired by kaju katli) and baby diyas. They are made by a proper dog bakery, so there's no fear of contamination (from human spices and salt) or the wrong ingredients used. But owners should always verify that before feeding treats to our floofs. 

Everywhere is doing Halloween treats, and I'm just not that keen on getting them for her. She has tons of pumpkin on a regular basis anyway. It's a lot of unnecessary snacks to create imbalances in her GI tract. All these ought to be given in moderation. And often, I'm like, why eat freeze dried or baked stuff when Choya can eat them raw, or have the actual yoghurt or protein? Anyway. 

The murukku were of pork protein, and the diya was duck. The Pawju Pawli was simply yoghurt and goat milk with raspberry. It's so creative! These treatos are given to her as meal toppers. One each. Hahahah. yes. Her stomach is that tiny, and no I do no want to be saddled with laosai sprints to the roadside kerb. Choya happily ate her treatos. She didn't bother with the wolfberry. LOL She really picks out fruits and vegetables and chucks them aside.