Meat is eaten only on special occasions. A sort of porridge is made with meat soup and wheat flour. However nowadays bread made of corn, and soup made of tomatoes, onions, potatoes, and boiled vegetables are also eaten. The custom to eat rice at special occasions was also brought by the Muslim. Fruit is plentiful from summer to autumn and dried mulberries, apricots and their kernels and walnuts are eaten during the winter.
Local wine is prepared during autumn and drunk.
Formerly chicken and eggs were forbidden but nowadays these taboos are broken. Though men wear Chitrali hats and Shalwar-Qamiz like an ordinary Pakistani, their traditional clothes are baggy trousers made of heavy wool with a waistcoat and a wide woven belt. They wrap their feet in goat skin which protects their legs and also serves as boots. Cattlemen wear a heavy overcoat from goat's hair to avoid the cold and snow in winter. The women's costume is unique.