No Thanks for Your Mishloach Manos!

i think its sweet people take out the time to make things and everything but sometimes its just like come on,i was at your house when you where making it and saw your kids hands in it all give me a break!

Ingrate.

People like to get rid of their homemade junk before pesach; you really can’t complain about it.

Or I simply feed it to my kids.

Perhaps they intended it as kid food? They know that feeding kids is expensive and wanted to help you out.

I give mishloach manos to do a mitzvah, and to increase achdus and friendship, not to get dipsy doodles back.

There are people who think anybody else’s homemade food is disgusting-I don’t think that the yiddishe derech took those feelings into consideration.

Many people who are very careful in Halacha, insist on giving food that can be eaten by the Seuda, and that only then are you really yotzeh in mishloach manos. I got some challah/kugels that i put on my seuda table – I would never call it disgusting- they were delicious.

It could be that the ‘cement’ cookies were delicious when they were baked, and got unexpectedly hard because the packages were made erev Shabbos, as the motzai shabbos setup was a little challenging – clean up from Shabbos, dress the kids, prepare the seuda and shalach manos…….Don’t be so makpid and calculate your net loss/profit on your shalach manos – it’s meant to generate feelings of comradery and achdus.

I ate the 2 lunch shalach monos we got today. Yum yum yummy. As long as you label your home-cooked food Yoshon, we’re golden.

I agree with TPO. Home-made food is usually much more delicious than the others. And financially it makes more sense too. Just please label it Yoshon or it goes to our non-Jewish neighbors and friends.

I’ll hold the sandwich, but please be careful not to bite my hand.

I keep it simple and cheap.

An Arizona drink, a bag of chips, and a packaged hamantash with a ribbon tied around it.

I don’t like eating things made in private kitchens; I don’t know how clean people are and I don’t know their kashrut standards (similarly, I would expect people to feel the same about me).

“When I get home I simply transfer the contents of your grotesque mishloach manos to the nearest waste basket. As I am sure many of you do. Or I simply feed it to my kids.”

I guess you don’t regard your kids highly.

In fact, it seems that you don’t have much respect for many people either.

I have always made the effort to send real food, as opposed to theme junk, and packaged sugary snacks. That does not preclude creativity. Mishloach manos should not be that different then the homemade comfort foods that we send as chessed packages to kimpatorin. That’s the essence of the Halocha, n’est pas?

Mishloach Manos is supposed to be something that can be used for a seudah. According to some, you might not be yotze by giving a bag of chips and a soda. You should give something that you can be koveah seudah on. If you want to give chips and a soda, make sure you give at least one person a challah roll with it!

My wife and I gave some people (our Rav, and kids’ Morahs) a “fancy” mishloach manos, which contained a roll, hamentashen, fruit, and a bottle of wine.

For everyone else, we did a breakfast theme – single-serve cereal bowl, boxed milk, bottle of water, and a hamentash. We also put in a spoon to eat the cereal with.

We didn’t give to one of our friends this year because she told my wife that she takes all the handmade stuff and dumps it in the garbage. Oh well.

We gave healthy this year – my wife made up salads in a little container, and packaged it with breadsticks and salad dressing.

For everyone else, we did a breakfast theme – single-serve cereal bowl, boxed milk, bottle of water, and a hamentash. We also put in a spoon to eat the cereal with.

One year I had a friend who gave me a corned beef sandwich, chips, and a bottle of beer. That was great!

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.

this might be the funniest thread i’ve read here so far…

I equally despise receiving baked goods, annd the bags of candy and chips. mmmh cheap, pareve, sat on the shelf for 6 months, wafers are my favorite..another laffy taffy… yay said no one ever.

everyone should just give each other pizza. or maybe shawarma laffas. burgers??

one year i got one that was three different kind of ice cream and ice cream cones. best purim ever.

“But I am sure you can understand my frustrations when I try to give a thoughtful mishloach manos,”

Can you define a thoughtful mishloach manos?

@tro11

You need to get friends with better kitchen skills. We got many delicious home-baked goods that you can’t find in a typical bakery.

“delivering ice cream is not easy”

True. Is why someone on east 3rd in brooklyn brought an ice cream truck to the block and had everyone line up and order what they wanted.