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How to win Purim with Mishloach Manot as funny as it is delicious – the striker

It is a universal truth that nobody likes to get raisins in your Purim basket. And yet the raisins exist. I am convinced that the same tiny red one-an-shaft box has been circulating for decades, the gift that is given again and again, L’or vador. With all respect for the Jewish tradition, there is a better way.

You don’t have to give your friends raisins, and for love for everything that is good and sacred, you don’t have to spend any red delicious apples. But they have to give according to the wise Mishloach Manot – Two or more foods that are delivered by Purim on the day of at least one person who is Friday this year. If you do it, you can do it well too.

So that your dream for the snack-sharing pre-prevention in the sun does not dry out, I humbly offer this guide to make Mishloach Manot that do not suck!

Memorable Mishloach Manot adhere to a simple formula: good nosh; entertaining topic; Sweet poem. Here is what you will do:

1st schedule

Before you go shopping, you have to decide two things: How many gift bags they and their budget per bag give. If you consider that they can give their best Jewish friend some Oreos and Ritz crackers and thus meet the requirements of the Mizwa (if not friendship), there is absolutely no reason why every bag should cost more than a 2025 -egg box.

Don’t do it. With the kind permission of Amazon

Let us think in 12 gift bags with a budget of 5 USD per bag.

2. Select a topic

A topic for your Mishloach Manot is of course completely optional, but can really help focus your shopping or baking options. I have a friend who created Purim baskets with pirate motif baskets this year to fit her family costume, so she ordered pirate’s prey, chocolate coins and gumm (they are “cannon balls”).

If you are inspired, take the next dollar shop and take a look at your linking cracks. Toy cars could tie a transport topic together (Oreos = wheels?). Evil Topic (pink and green jelly beans, maybe a black licorice)? Brat Purim? (Light green Laffy Taffy and Granny Smith apples.) It doesn’t have to be up to date. It definitely does not require a toy of the toy, although magic keeps magic a little longer.

I chose “courage” as my topic for this year. So everyone gets a small aircraft bottle of vodka (i.e. liquid courage) and onions (it is a metaphor, people). Don’t worry – there will also be thematic junk food. More on this in a SEK.

Avoid one thing: healthy food. I am neither a rabbi nor a scholar, but I can certainly say that Queen Esther almost broke her in a bar from Nature Valley. Let her eat sweets!

3. Select a bag

The ship is important -first impressions and all of this. Sure, you can use these brown paper lunch pockets for the pinch, but the dollar business has something for around 50 cents each. Last year my boss ordered these gift boxes from Amazon with a transparent top and golden seals, very noble and only $ 0.37.

You can always visit old school with a disposable sign and a Saran wrap. It’s not nice (or robust), but it fulfills the Mizwa. Word to the Wise: If you choose a larger bag, you must fill a larger bag or the risk of shrinkage.

4. The all -important content

On the food. If you do more than five Mishloach Manot, you want to buy in large quantities so that a visit to Smart & Final, Costco or Amazon will go a long way. Fortunately, the Esther season is in the Easter season (we had it first), so that the corridors are teeming with delicacies and bags to pack them.

Important: For allergies, you should avoid nuts that are not packed. And if you prepare food at home, make sure it is kosher enough if everyone gets it.

Build your food selection for a topic if you have selected one. Otherwise you will find an official, undeniable rank for typical Mishloach Manot tariff, from which is likely to the likelihood – or worse, for months in a refrigerator or closet by someone in the fridge or in one cabinet:

The truth is that I would eat all of this at some point. Photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images
  1. Sour sweets
  2. Packed cookies
  3. Homemade Hamantaschen
  4. Hearty snacks (without vegetable straw)
  5. Mini alcohol bottles
  6. Sweets, different
  7. Spices
  8. Load purchased Hamantaschen
  9. Apple juice in the cool, strong glass bottles
  10. soda
  11. Nuts
  12. Clementine
  13. Dried fruits
  14. Vegetables straws
  15. Grape juice
  16. grapes
  17. Apple juice in a different kind of bottle
  18. Raisins
  19. Apples
  20. Tomato juice

Give as much as you want, but please stop giving me tomato juice.

I doubled the recipe, so I bought: 24 colored paper bags ($ 11); a 30-pack from Knott’s Shortbread cookie bags ($ 11); Four 6-packs Ginger Ale ($ 17); a tub of 200 acid phrases (12 US dollars); 24 50 ml recordings of Tequila ($ 25); 24 onions ($ 5) and a box with 30 protein bars (15 US dollars for summoning the strength). This has 96 US dollars, although I may have to get another 24 onions to get the joke up and running. We even call it $ 100.

(To be honest, I spent at least $ 20 for things that have not landed in the pockets of people – I think I only have to keep the two dozen hot wheels cars that I got for myself!

I think they were filled with chocolate, the original Jewish trauma is. Photo by Deb Lindsey for Washington Post about Getty Images

5. Composing your Mishoach Manot poem

I like reading something about all my delicious snicky snacks. I read it in the voice of who wrote it, and I enjoy it. The authorship of close friends is the truest Purim delicious bites of everyone.

Take it or leave it, but promise me that you will not contact Chatgpt. If you are old enough to read this, you are old enough to write a rhyming couplet yourself. Give me raisins and tomato juice before giving me something. It literally makes the food worse – no, the whole vacation.

No time to rhyme? Tell your recipients what you think space for this Purim. Or handcart a short note! The idea is to do it personally.

No, you can’t read my poem.

6. The big day!

This is where Chatgpt comes into play. Do you think of this list of recipients you used to write down? Enter your address and as for the most efficient delivery route. While orthodox Jews generally make their own deliveries for Purim themselves, others notice in the days before vacation and build anticipation.

This brings us to the most difficult part of the entire Mishloach Manot experience, at least in Jewish quarters where most people drive: to be polite on the street. Yes, other people tend to park their minivans in the middle of the street while they deliver their Purim baskets – they would certainly never do it. But try to let go. Breathe. Maybe you grab an plot of raisins while waiting.

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