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I love festival mithai - how do I get through Diwali and Holi without a full blowout?

I love festival mithai - how do I get through Diwali and Holi without a full blowout?

You don't have to skip mithai this Diwali or Holi. A plate of one laddoo, one barfi and one gulab jamun runs about 440 kcal, and the real swings come from piece size, how much ghee went in, and how many houses get a full plate instead of a taste.

10 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy

Mithai is the point of the festival, not something to feel guilty about. Laddoo, barfi and gulab jamun each carry a real, countable number of calories - mostly from ghee, sugar and khoya - and once you can see where those numbers actually come from, you can enjoy the season without treating every plate like your last one. Every figure here comes from a real recipe or a real nutrition database, rounded and given as honest ranges.

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