This Diwali

Every wish adds an extra meal. Everyone who opens it adds one more.

Our Diwali meal drive in Kolkata is already planned and happens either way. Every Diwali wish you send from our site adds one extra meal on top of it, and every person who opens your wish adds one more. We cook them all in our own kitchen, the way we cooked 100 meals for our first drive in September.

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extra meals added by Diwali wishes Live. It moves the moment a wish is sent or opened.

Extra meals served so far: 0 of 0.

Every meal on this counter is extra, on top of the drive we already planned, and every one of them will be cooked and served. If the count grows past what one drive can carry, we serve the rest across the next drives and post the photos here.

    Your order feeds more than you.

    Once a month, the kitchen that makes your food cooks a batch for people in Kolkata who would not get a hot meal otherwise, and we carry it there ourselves. Nothing is added to your bill. It is paid for by the food we sell. This page shows every drive.

    Be part of this See the last drive
    First drive: Saturday 6 September 2026.
    Drive 01, 6 Sept 2026
    Thank you for being part of this.

    It happens because of orders like yours.

    - Spice Up Foods
    1Once a month, our kitchen cooks a batch nobody pays for, and we take it there ourselves.
    2Cooked in the same kitchen as your food, which is ISO certified and FSSAI licensed.
    3Carried by us, filmed by us, and posted on this page within the week.
    6 Sept. The first plate leaves the boot

    Every Indian kitchen cooks one extra. So does ours.

    Ask anyone who grew up here. The kitchen always made one more roti than it needed. Not for you. For the guest at the wrong hour, the neighbour's child, whoever turned up. A kitchen that cooks only what it needs is not a kitchen. It is a canteen.

    We are a kitchen before we are a brand. Every packet we make goes to someone who paid for it, and we are proud of that. But once a month we do what every kitchen here has always done. We make the extra one, and we take it to people in Kolkata who would not get a hot meal today unless somebody carried one to them.

    The food you buy is what pays for the food we give.

    You are already part of this.

    There is nothing to tick and nothing extra to pay. If you have ordered from us, you have kept this kitchen cooking, and that is what pays for the drive.

    1drive so far 100meals served

    Every plate was paid for by orders like yours.

    Cooked where your food is cooked

    There is no separate kitchen for this. On the morning of a drive, the same people who cook your dal and your khichdi cook one more batch, the way they cook every day, with the same care. Nobody at the stove knows which containers will be sold and which will be given away, and that is exactly how we want it.

    By noon the containers are sealed and go into a crate instead of a carton. The crate goes into the boot of our own car, and we drive. It is still warm when it reaches the people it was cooked for.

    Nobody gets a lesser plate because they did not pay for it.

    1First light, the pots go on

    Same cooks, same recipes, same morning as any other.

    2One batch more than the day needs

    Cooked with the same care as the food that goes into your box.

    3Sealed, crated, into the boot

    Into a crate instead of a carton. Still warm when the boot closes.

    4Put down in front of someone

    A short drive from the unit. The family carries the plates. Nobody makes a speech.

    Out of the kitchen, into the crate
    The first oneA note from Amit, who runs Spice Up Foods. Saturday 6 September 2026.

    We did it for the first time on the 6th, a short drive from the unit, under a flyover where a few dozen families live.

    It was smaller than it will be, and better than we deserved for a first attempt. We mostly opened containers and stayed out of the way.

    A tradition is a thing that has happened twice.
    Amit
    At the boot, 6 Sept

    Every drive, in photos and video

    One a month, all of them here. Open a drive to see everything we filmed that day.

    DRIVE 01 6 September 2026
    100meals served
    Under a flyover, a short drive from the unit
    Dal Chawal, cooked in our kitchen that morning
    5 photos, 3 videos
    Drive 02October 2026. Date posted here when fixed.
    The next one
    Paid for by the orders between now and then.

    How it runs

    One drive a month, done properly, is the whole ambition. Here is the shape of it.

    1Paid for by the food we sell

    There is no separate fund and no add-on at checkout. The kitchen runs on what you buy, and once a month part of what it cooks goes out for free.

    2We cook, we carry, we serve

    Our kitchen cooks it, our team and our family carry it, and we hand it over ourselves. Photos and videos go up within the week.

    The rules we keep

    • 1The numbers on this page are exactly what the kitchen cooked and served that day. The photos are right beside them.
    • 2Nothing is added to your bill for this. There is no tip jar and no tax receipt. It is paid for out of what you already spend with us.
    • 3It is cooked in our own kitchen, by the same people, with the same care. Nothing is cooked to a lower standard because nobody is paying for it.
    You can come too. In Kolkata on a drive day? Come and hand out plates with us.

    Bring nothing but yourself. Family, friends, customers, anyone. Message us and we will send you the date, the time and the place.

    I'd like to come

    Order, and you are part of it

    Buy the food you were going to buy. Nothing extra, nothing to tick. The kitchen you keep running is the kitchen that cooks the extra one.

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