Dear Devotees,
We would like to thank each and every one of you who brings
food items to be offered to Lord Krishna. Seven sets of food
offerings are presented to Lord Krishna daily starting from
4:00 am all the way to 8:30 pm. Srila Prabhupada, the Founder
Acharya of ISKCON has always taught us that all food offerings
to the Lord should be first class:
As far as the eatables are concerned, all items should be first-
class preparations. There should be first-class rice, dal, fruit,
sweet rice, vegetables, and a variety of foods to be sucked,
drunk and chewed. All the eatables offered to the Deities
should be extraordinarily excellent. – Srila Prabhupada
While donations are always welcome, we urge all donors to be
mindful as to what can be offered to Lord Krishna and what
cannot. These days, most food items are contaminated with
chemicals and animal products which cannot be offered to Lord
Krishna. Regretfully, food that cannot be offered goes unused.
Here is the list of ORGANIC food items that we will accept,
we ENCOURAGE you to bring only ORGANIC to be offered
to Krishna:
Allowed Items
• Organic Whole milk (without any vitamin D or omega 3)
• Organic Fruits and vegetables
• Organic green mung, channa, and toor dal ONLY
• Organic Unbleached all purpose flour (NOT BLEACHED)
• Organic Chickpea flour, Organic garbanzo beans (not canned)
• Organic: Walnuts, pecans, almonds, pistachios, cashews (un-
salted raw)
• Organic Royal basmati, jasmine rice
• Organic Indian spices (cumin seeds, turmeric, etc.)
• Organic Dried fruits: raisins, pineapple, mango, dates, etc.
• Organic Fragrant flowers
• Organic Saffron
• Organic Quinoa
• Organic Dairy products: butter, yogurt (no gelatin), etc.
• Organic Chapati flour (Ashirvaad, Lakshmi, Royal Chakki
ONLY)
• Organic Ekadasi ingredients: raajgira, singoda, samo, etc.
• Organic Soji (farina)
• Organic Himalayan (pink) salt
Not allowed items
• Sona Masoori rice
• 1% fat or reduced fat milk or non-organic milk
• Milk that has omega 3 fish oil
• Non-organic dairy items
• Vegetable oil
• Canola oil
• Oil that is not rice bran oil
• White or non-organic sugar
• Beans including kidney, yellow, green
• Red or orange lentils
• Iodized salt
For health and safety reasons, the following CANNOT be
accepted:
• Any food bag that is opened and then resealed!
• Any food item put in a sandwich bag e.g. dal, nuts, etc.
Thank you again for your kind donations. For any questions
regarding food donations, please contact:
Vaninatha Dasa 310-741-8418