Shirdi Sai Baba loved serving food to his devotees. The Shirdi Sai Baba Trust keeps the tradition alive by providing free food all people visiting the temple. The menu includes chapati, rice and curry, two vegetarian dishes and dessert. Ladoo (a sweet given as prasadam to devotees) and sweet boondi (a sweet made of besan flour, deep fried in ghee, with a sprinkling of cashew nuts and raisins) are given free to devotees. The kitchen at Shirdi Sai Baba temple is one of the largest in the world and serves food to nearly a million people every month. The kitchen maintains high food hygiene standards. Water is treated in the reverse osmosis method. The kitchen functions from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. It is considered the biggest of its kind in Asia. On an average, 40,000 people have food in the kitchen daily. The numbers go up to more than 100,000 during holidays and festivals. The kitchen annually uses around 1,600 tonnes of wheat, 900 tonnes of rice, 600 tonnes of gram flour, 900 tonnes