The festive spirit is on an all time high! And this means that the season has arrived when your house will never be empty with mithai boxes and chocolate boxes. People tend to curb their cravings by not keeping that food at home that makes their tongue watery, but what now? No matter how much you control, your all the five senses are on high alert for that ‘box of happiness’.

So let’s keep the spirit of health and fitness alive this diwali. Let us gift a ‘box of health’ this diwali to our near and dear ones and let them feel we respect their health too. All those mouth-watering sweets are loaded with calories, full of fats and have handful if sugar in them; not only bad they are harmful for the health too. No matter they look good, they taste good, but they don’t feel good to your body.

Try these gift options this Diwali:

1. Fruit basket: let it rule this Diwali

We all know the benefits of fruits-full of vitamins, storehouse of minerals and loaded with fibre. They are just like ‘chota packet bada dhamaka’. This season let us gift a fruit basket to our near and dear ones. Being perishable, they will prefer to consume them first and what will go inside their bodies is a bundle of health and happiness. They will provide them satiety and the variant colours will make it attractive too.

2. Fruit juices: way better than a half kilo mithai box

If you don’t have enough time for managing a fruit basket and need a readymade option, you can even giftthe trio box of juice packings available (Real, Tropicana etc.). Juices have added sugar in them and fruits will be a better option for satiety, but something is better than nothing. If you go on counting calories, these sound much better than a mithai box.

3. The star of the event: Diet bars

Several companies have manufactured diet bars these days. Basically they are not actually that lower in calories as they have added sugar. Despite all this, they still have fibre that gives satiety to a next level. Also they have the health of nuts too. So, if the point is health, they are not a bad option either.

4. Ever thought of gifting nuts and dried fruits?

Almonds, Walnuts, Figs, Raisins, Dates, Blueberries etc.- what’s wrong in gifting these? These dried fruits come with the advantage of having omega-3 fatty acids, an essential fatty acid that our body needs. They are a powerhouse of nutrition. Good option to gift your dearies and they don’t look cheap either, as they are a bot costly too.

5. Let healthy cookies be the one

You can also gift healthy biscuits made from ragi, oats, jowar etc., which are loaded with nuts. They are the perfect alternative to sugar laden sweets. Go and explore. You will find a lot of healthy cookies to be tasty too!

6. Gift exotic herbs

Gifting exotic herbs is ideal for someone who likes to experiment with their culinary skills. Hand pick and create jars of herbs and freshly ground and blended spices such as saffron, thyme, parsley, lavender, rosemary etc.

The final word

In today’s world when people are so concerned about how difficult it is to eat right, it would be a blessing to receive gifts that help instead of worsening the diet situation.