Making life easier during festival of light

With Diwali around the corner, many people go in search of sweetmeats shops and home industries. Here is a list of people who make life easier for others by making sweetmeats and butter biscuits.

• MALA IBRAHIM of Westville makes sweetmeats and savouries. Sweetmeats from R100kg include chana magaj, burfee, ladoo and gulab jamun. Baklava is R150/kg. Gift packs, which include sweetmeats, biscuits and a lamp, are priced at R195. Call Mala on 0834434017 or 0312667804.

• Sunday Times culinary expert ASHA MAHARAJ'S sweetmeats are R110/kg. To order, call 0313047270.

• RADHIKA DUVAL of Overport has burfee and chana magaj in daisy-shaped flowers and a range of other sweetmeats which cost R90/kg. Sutherfeni is R20 each and R75 for a dozen banana puri. Call 0312098793.

• REKHA MOHABIR of Clairwood supplies sweetmeats at R85/kg. A container of butter biscuits costs R20. A container of ladoo, jelebi, gulab jamun, chana magaj, burfee and butter biscuits for R35. Call 0314651386 or 0837754054.

• VENI SINGH of Kharwastan supplies sweetmeats, which include burfee, chana magaj, penda, gulab jamun and vermicelli halwa, at R120/kg. Call 0314012207 or 0837216084.