101 Mishloach Manot Ideas

Find yourself stuck for a creative mishloach manot idea this year for Purim?

There’s nothing wrong with a few hamantashen and an orange on a plastic plate. But if you want to get a bit more creative, picking a “theme” for your mishloach manot is one way to up the cute-factor without driving yourself too crazy.

I know some people are anti-theme – and one of the reasons it that they no doubt think it will mean spending hundreds of dollars and way too much time.

Not to worry! These 101 ideas are sweet and simple – not complicated and costly. Hopefully they will inspire you – and bring a smile to your face.

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Purim Sameach!

1. Homemade soup with breadsticks, croutons or soup nuts
2. Chips & Salsa (with homemade salsa)
3. More Chips & Salsa (with Personalized Layered Dip)
4. Candy Sushi 
5. Tea Time
6. More Tea Time  - tea bags with homemade scones or finger sandwiches
7. Butterfly Bags 
8. Italian – pasta, sauce (homemade), olive oil, fresh basil, fresh grated parmesan
9. Yom Tov – apple & honey, latke or sufganiyah, hamentashen, matzah, mini cheese cake
10. S’mores Kits
11. Apples – apple juice, apple sauce, apple muffins, etc. (“You’re the apple of our eye”)
12. Cowboy / Wild West
13. Breakfast Bites – Homemade muffins & jam, bagels & cream cheese
14. Hot Chocolate in a Jar 
15. Cereal and (shelf-stable) milk: “We wish you a CEREALously wonderful Purim!”
16. Heathy Snacks: Veggies & Dip 
17. Healthy Breakfast: Yogurt with homemade granola
18. School Lunches: PB&J, fruit cup, granola bar, and juice box wrapped up on disposable lunch trays
19. Movie Night: Popcorn, candy and soda, wrapped up in popcorn boxes 
20. In Flight Delight – mini bag of peanuts, mini bag of pretzels, bottle of water (or mini bottles of alcohol for your good friends)
21. Death by Chocolate
22. Star Wars 
23. Orange: “Orange you glad it’s Purim” with all orange treats
24. Picnic Basket: wine or Perrier, cheese, baguettes, salads
25. PB&J (Healthy): whole grain bread, all-natural peanut butter & fruit preserves
26. Pizza Kit: ready-made crusts (or mini crusts), homemade sauce, grated cheese, olives
27. Ice Cream Sundae 
28. Shivat haMinim: Hamentaschen (wheat), beer (barley), dates, raisins (grapes), olives, figs and POM Wonderful juice
29. Melting Pot: Cubed fruit, pound cake, nuts and chocolate bar (don’t forget the tea light)
30. Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Cracker Jacks, Peanuts, Cotton Candy, etc. (wrapped up in a baseball cap?)
31. Rainbow #1: one food for each color of the rainbow
32. Rainbow #2: one rainbow twizzlers packaged with gold-wrapped coins (left-over from Chanukah?) 
33. Rainbow #3 (healthy): layered salad in clear plastic cup, with grape tomatoes, shredded carrots, corn, peas and shredded cabbage
34. Dominoes: Black & white foods, in a white gift bag with large black circles
35. Farmer in the Dell: Basket of fresh fruit and veggies (dress up as farmers)
36. Prescription Purim: small medicine bottles or weekly pill box filled with various candies and treats, with “Rx Purim” labels {especially cute with doctor / nurse costumes} 
    
37. Day at the Beach: Summer snacks wrapped up in a plastic pail
38. Chinese: Stir fry rice or noodles in Chinese take-out container, topped with fortune cookies and chopsticks
39. Gone nuts: Bamba, nutter bars, almond spread, cashews, etc.
40. Tropical treats: Coconut M & M’s, coconut milk, mini bottles of rum, pina colada muffins
41. Shabbos: challah roll, mini grape juice, chicken soup, etc.
42. Pickled Purim
43. Caramel apples: Homemade salted caramel & apple 
44. Spice of Life: Spice tea, spice cake, oranges with cloves, cinnamon sticks, etc.
45. Beer & nuts (or other “bar” food) ~ for the 21 & older crowd
46. Greek: Olives, Feta cheese, piece of Spanikopita, pita chips
47. Cesar Salad: Romaine lettuce, Parmesan cheese, homemade croutons, slice cucumbers and tomatoes, EVOO
48. Taste of Israel: Pita, falafel balls, hummus and chopped salad in disposable containers, wrapped with white & blue ribbon 
49. Taste of Israel #2: Olives, hummus, eggplant salad, pita chips, zaatar, halva
50. Kugel & Cake
51. “Mini” Me: mini carrots, mini rice cakes, mini bottles of water, mini quiches, etc. {possibly packaged in a Minnie Mouse-themed gift bag – perfect with a “Minnie” mouse costume}
52. Sweet & Sour or Hot & Sour
53. Snap, Crackle, Pop
54. Lower East Side: Deli sandwich, pickle and coke
55. Milk & cookies 
56. Esther’s Jewels: Ring pop, candy necklace, etc. in a jewelry box
57. We’re Bananas for You: Banana bread, banana chips, banana-flavored laffy taffy
58. When Life Hands You Lemons: Lemons, sugar cubes, bottled water, lemon muffins
59. Mishloach Manot Man (aka Juice Box Robot): Juice box body, apple sauce cup head, mini-raisin feet, pretzel rod arms, spoon antennas
60. Purim Pick-Me-Up: Coffee packets, tea packets, energy bar, can of Coke
61. Buried Treasure: Chocolate gold coins, ring pops, candy necklaces in pirate’s treasure boxes 
62. Bread & Butter: Homemade bread and spreads
63. Corn-y: Corn muffins, baby corn, candy corn
64. Beans: Baked Beans, black beans, green beans, jelly beans (“How’s your Purim bean?”)
65. Firefighter: Red hots, spicy chili, burned cake (hahaha)
66. Morning Sickness (perfect for a pregnant lady): Ginger Ale, saltines, candied ginger
67. How Your Garden Grows 
68. Havdalah: Grape juice, cinnamon buns (besamim), licorine braided into havdala candle
69. Pretzels: Homemade pretzels with dipping sauce
70. From A to Z: As many little foods as possible that start with the letter A
71. This Mishloach Manot is Brought to You by the Letter P and the Number 14
72. Alphabet: Pick a letter and have all the foods start with that letter
73. Mad Scientist: slime (made from Jello), Test Tube treats, candy chocolate brains 
    
74. Birds of a Feather Flock Together: egg-shaped chocolates, speckled egg candies, gummy worms, wrapped up in a bird’s nest
75. Ray of Sunshine: Yellow-only treats
76. Peter Cottontail: Piping bags filled with cheese doodles and tied with green ribbon (“carrots”) + marshmallow cottontails
77. Have a “Berry” Happy Purim: Strawberry short cake, blueberry pie, etc.
78. Artist’s Palette  
    
79. Briyat haOlam: Black & white cookie (yom 1); water & cotton candy (yom 2); candy flowers (yom 3); star cookies (yom 4); gummy fish (yom 5); animal crackers (yom 6); challah rolls & mini juice bottle (yom shabbat)
80. Out of this world: Mars Bar, Milky way, etc. {dress your kiddos up as astronauts and aliens}
81. Go green: Recycle all your mishloach manot??!!
82. Camping: Bug juice, trail mix, hot cocoa mix
83. CHiPs: potato chips, chocolate chips, banana chips.. and you dress up like Erik Estrada (those of you born in the ’90s may not get this reference)
84. Green Eggs and Ham{antashen} 
85. Cold Kit: Jewish penicillin (aka chicken soup), orange juice,  tea & honey, Ricolla cough drops (wrapped up in an empty tissue box??)
86. Alice in Wonderland: Bottle of liquid with “drink me” sign, food labeled with “eat me” signs
87. Hide & Seek: Cookies or bars or hidden treats inside like meringues with chocolate chips in the middle, hamantashen, etc. (wrapped up in a Purim mask)
88. Monsters: Monster cookies, monster energy drink (check if that’s kosher)
89. Honey: Honey sticks, honey cookies, honey cake, honey-flavored candies, honey candles, etc. {works great with a bee costume} 
90. Prisoners: Bread & water in white bag with black vertical stripes (for prisoner bars)
91. Leaving Egypt: Yogi Egyptian tea and honey stick, Toblerone singles (shaped like a pyramid), Egyptian fava beans, etc.
92. 4 Mitzvot of Purim: rolls for the seudah, gold chocolate coins for matanot l’evyonim, fruit roll up for megilah and hamantashen for mishloach  manot
93. Health Nut: all healthy/organic snacks (Clif Bars, LaraBar, dried fruit, etc.)
94. Under the Sea 
95. “Paleo” Purim: carb-free, sugar-free
96. Popcorn: various flavors of gourmet popcorn, popcorn-flavored jelly bellies
97. Purim Seudah for 1: 4-Course Meal on divided plate with serving of each of four courses: soap (in small plasticware), salad, meat, and dessert + a challah roll
98. Newly kosher: snack foods that didn’t use to have a hechsher, but are now kosher like Oreos, Dots, etc.
99. Vegas: 100 Grand Bar, gold coins, a mini deck of playing cards or dice, etc. – wrapped up in a large martini glass (Haman gambled with our lives, but the “house” didn’t let him win!)
100. Smoothies: Ingredients for your favorite smoothie, with a  mini box of almond or rice milk – for eg. orange creamsicle smoothie (orange, carrots, frozen/fresh mango) or strawberry banana oatmeal smoothie (strawberries, banana, rolled oats)
101. Sushi Salad