tro11: you keep mentioning how cheap it is to send baked goods over store bought chips and candy. So you’re saying that a can of soda, roughly 50 cents, a bag of chips, roughly 25 cents, and a couple of taffies, roughly 30 cents, which totals (drumroll) $1.05 is worth more than a homemade kugel (by the way, it takes time to make kugel/cake. and time is money too but for arguments sake, just leave it at that.) with a fruit or drink?! You seem obsessed with the “cheapness” of homemade goods. My husband doesnt want us to eat others homemade goods unless he knows them very well (this basically only includes family, not friends and neighbors). Instead of throwing it out, we give it to others who would eat it.
So maybe next year, save the $20 total you spend on JUNK for mishloach manos, with your attitude, its not worth getting mishloach manos from you any way.