Dry Fruit Gift Box Ideas for Eid, Weddings and the Office (and One That Is Not Nuts)

What a dry fruit gift box costs in Pakistan in 2026, fifteen ideas by budget for Eid, weddings and corporate gifting, how to pack one so it arrives fresh, and a fruit box for the people who cannot eat nuts.

A dry fruit gift box in Pakistan costs between about Rs 1,500 for a small combination pack and Rs 12,000 or more for a wooden hamper, with most Eid and wedding boxes sold in the Rs 3,000 to Rs 6,000 range, by the 2026 price lists of the Lahore and Karachi sellers who make them. The price is mostly the nuts: almonds run Rs 850 to 3,200 a kilo this year depending on grade, walnuts Rs 900 to 2,800, and cashews and pistachios more, with pistachio prices jumping in October 2026 after the Iran border closed, according to one Lahore seller. Here is what the boxes cost, fifteen ideas by budget and occasion, how to pack one so it is still fresh when it is opened, and the box to give the growing number of people who cannot, or will not, eat nuts.

What a box costs in 2026

Box	What is usually in it	2026 asking price
Small combo pack, 300–500 g	Almonds, cashews, raisins, sometimes pistachio	Rs 1,500–2,500
Four-portion tin or card box	Almonds, walnuts, cashews, raisins	about Rs 1,200–2,500
Mid-range wooden box, 5–6 portions	The four above plus pistachio and dates or figs	Rs 3,000–5,000
1 kg mixed box	Five items by weight	Rs 3,900–5,500
Premium wooden box, 7 portions	Adds chilgoza, dried apricot, Ajwa dates	Rs 6,000–8,000, up to Rs 12,000
Gift-shop hampers	Nuts with chocolates, tea, a mug	Rs 7,000–13,600

These are sellers' listed prices in October 2026, not a survey, and the same box is often cheaper the week after Eid than the week before. What moves the number is the share of imported nuts: a box that is half pistachio and cashew costs twice one that leans on walnuts, dates and raisins, which are grown here.

Fifteen ideas, by budget

Under Rs 2,000

The four-portion classic. Almonds, walnuts, cashews and kishmish in a tin or a card box with a clear window. The box every family has given and received; it still works because it is eaten.
A khajoor box for Ramadan. Aseel dates from Khairpur, pitted, in a kilo box, or a smaller box of Ajwa for someone who will notice. The gift that is opened at iftar the same day.
A winter basket. Moongphali in the shell, gur, rewri and gajak: the Punjabi winter on one plate, and honest about being mostly sugar and peanuts. For December.
The 50 g desk gift. A single pouch of freeze-dried fruit per person, for an office or a class: strawberry at Rs 790, the five-fruit mix at Rs 700. Nothing melts and nobody is left out for a nut allergy.
Home-roasted nuts in a jar. Almonds and peanuts tossed with salt and a little chaat masala, roasted at home and packed in a glass jar with a ribbon. Cheaper than any box and nobody will think so.

Rs 2,000 to 5,000

The wooden five-portion box. Buy the empty wooden box from a dry-fruit shop or a bazaar and fill it yourself from the loose counter: it costs about half the pre-filled version for the same weight.
The fruit box, not nuts. Four 50 g pouches, one fruit each: strawberry, Chaunsa mango, Larkana amrood and the five-fruit mix, in a plain box with a card saying where each fruit was grown. One ingredient per pouch, no sugar, no oil, no nuts, and it keeps 12 months sealed, which is the box for the diabetic uncle who reads labels, the child, and the cousin with the allergy. Each pouch starts at Rs 790, Rs 750, Rs 560 and Rs 700.
The chai box. Freeze-dried kinnow wheels, a tin of loose-leaf chai and a jar of honey. The wheel goes into the cup.
The baker's box. Freeze-dried strawberry and mango, which bakers grind into powder for icing and cheesecake, with a bar of good chocolate. For the person who makes the Eid cakes.
Regional, by name. Swat walnuts, Khairpur dates, Sargodha kinnow wheels, Larkana guava slices, each labelled with its district. The label is the gift.

Rs 5,000 and up

The seven-portion hamper. Chilgoza, Mamra almonds, Iranian pistachio, Ajwa dates, dried apricots from Hunza, walnuts, cashews, in the reusable wooden box with the brass clasp. The corporate standard for a client at Eid.
The bari or mehndi tray. Dry fruit arranged on a decorated tray under net, for the wedding gift exchange. Four or five items in clear glass jars read better than a heap, and the jars are kept.
The company Eid gift, done once. Fifty identical boxes, one card, one delivery. Dry-fruit shops do this on order and most will print the company's name on the box lid; ask for the order a month before Eid, because everybody else does too.
The healthy Eidi. For the children in the family, a pouch of banana coins or apple crisps with the Eidi note instead of a box of sweets. Freeze-dried fruit is the sweet thing that is still fruit.
The mixed box for the house that gets ten boxes. If the recipient will receive a dozen almond-and-cashew boxes this Eid, give something different: the fruit box above, or the chai box, which they will open on the second day when the nuts are still in their tins.

How to pack it so it arrives fresh

Buy nuts in the shell where you can. Walnuts and peanuts keep for months in the shell and weeks once shelled; the shelled ones in a hot box go stale fast.
Mind the heat. Nuts turn rancid in a car boot in June, and a box left in the sun smells of it when opened. Pack the day before, keep it in the house, and in summer keep the box small.
Skip the coloured and sugared items. Red pistachios, green-dyed raisins and sugar-rolled "dried fruit" look festive on a tray and are the first things left uneaten.
Label the origin. A tag that says Swat, Khairpur, Hunza, Larkana or Sargodha turns a heap of nuts into a gift someone chose.
Clear jars over cellophane. A tray of jars can be reused and does not sweat; a cellophane tray in Lahore in August sweats.
Sealed pouches stay sealed. Freeze-dried fruit keeps 12 months only while the pouch is closed; once it is open, air goes out and the zip goes shut, or the fruit softens. Gift the pouch unopened.

The honest note

A dry fruit box is a good gift because people eat it, and a bad one when it is mostly the sugar and the dye. Give the four things the recipient will finish, say where they came from, and if there is a child, a diabetic or an allergy in the house, give fruit. All our pouches come in 50 g, 100 g, 250 g and 500 g, delivered for Rs 299 to any city in Pakistan, free over Rs 4,000, with Cash on Delivery, and same-day in Lahore before 2pm. For bulk gift orders, the wholesale page has the details.

Sources: box prices from the October 2026 listings and guides of Khan Dry Fruit, Quetta Dry Fruits and Lahore Gifts Online; nut prices from 2026 Karachi and Lahore retail lists; the pistachio price note from Khan Dry Fruit's price guide.

Sawal jawab · Questions people ask

2026 mein dry fruit gift box ka rate kya hai?

Lahore aur Karachi ke dry fruit sellers ke 2026 ke rates: chhote combo pack Rs 1,500 se 2,500, lakri ke darmiyane box Rs 3,000 se 5,000, premium box Rs 6,000 se 8,000 aur us se upar, aur 1 kg ka mix box lagbhag Rs 3,900 se 5,500. Badam, kaju aur pista ki qeemat dollar ke saath badalti hai, is liye rate har mahine thora hilta hai. (Small combos Rs 1,500–2,500; mid wooden boxes Rs 3,000–5,000; premium Rs 6,000–8,000+; a 1 kg mixed box about Rs 3,900–5,500.)

Shadi ki bari ya mehndi ki tray mein kya rakhein?

Chaar cheezein kaafi hain: badam, akhrot, kishmish aur khajoor, saaf shishe ke jar ya chhote box mein, aur har cheez ka naam aur ilaqa likha hua tag. Rang wale ya cheeni wale dry fruit se parhez karein, woh tray mein ache lagte hain lekin koi khata nahi. (Four things in clear jars with a tag naming each one's origin; skip coloured or sugared items.)

Jise nuts se allergy ho, use kya gift karein?

Phal ka box. Freeze-dried strawberry, Chaunsa mango, Larkana amrood aur five-fruit mix ke 50 g pouch ek box mein: sirf phal, na cheeni, na tel, na kisi qism ka nut, aur 12 mahine sealed theek rehta hai. Bachon aur buzurgon dono ke liye chalta hai. (A fruit box: freeze-dried pouches, one ingredient each, no nuts, 12 months sealed.)

Dry fruit gift box kitne din theek rehta hai?

Chhilke wale nuts (akhrot, moongphali) thandi jagah mahinon tak; chhile hue badam aur kaju garmi mein 4 se 6 hafton mein baasi hone lagte hain, is liye garmiyon ka box chhota rakhein. Sealed freeze-dried pouch 12 mahine chalta hai, kholne ke baad hawa nikaal kar band karein. (Nuts in shell keep months in a cool place; shelled nuts go stale in 4–6 weeks of heat; a sealed freeze-dried pouch keeps 12 months.)