just a few days to go and ganeshas favourite modaks will be off the shelves of course you can have them whenever you want to but they wont taste the same without a dash of festivities as different families get ready to prepare modaks before bidding adieu to bappa we take you to some households and give a glimpse of the preparations and different styles with which bappas favourite sweets are madesomething chocolatynikita bagga an entrepreneur loves chocolate and modaks with chocolate are one of her favourites i have been a chocoholic since forever i started making homemade chocolates long back and since everybody in my house loves modaks i infuse them with chocolate i have been making a new lot every day because they fly off the plates like hot cakes in my family ganeshotsav is more of a chocolate modak festival says jyotsnafor the health freaksfor people on a diet too much of sweet isnt really an option but that doesnt mean the celebrations should stop sonali malhotra a nutritionist has a healthy modak option ready for those of you who are worried about the extra calories during the festival being a nutritionist i try and make every snack in a healthy way modaks are special for all and this time i have made five types of modaks using pumpkin seeds sunflower seeds ragi nuts dates and wheat all of these are healthy and delicious there are many ways of doing something and i choose the healthy way to treat bappa and my family she saysits all in the familyfor some families making modaks is a tradition that has been passed on for generations shweta bhale learned to make modaks from her mother but after her marriage she was exposed to more styles of preparing the sweet from her motherinlaw she informs earlier we used to keep it simple using milk and coconut but now i make varieties with mango paneer dry fruits and more every day is like a feastdouble the joyas it is rightly said the joy doubles when you share the thing you love citybased jyotsna gore is fond of cooking and her modaks have become a favourite among many including her sons office mates so she has been dishing out the delicious modaks for everyone during the 10day festival she says i love cooking new varieties of snacks according to the occasion ganeshotsav is my favourite time as modaks are my favourite too my son almost entirely survives on them during these days in my family we offer 108 modaks to lord ganesha and it just takes me an hour to make themuniting communitiesin the diversity country that we live nothing is restricted to any particular community for varsha datta a punjabi modaks have a different memory altogether i belong to a punjabi family and ganeshotsav was never a grand celebration after i shifted to a new house we had a maharashtrian family as neighbours and they celebrated the festival with aplomb my children