It should go without saying that if one intends to drive it is absolutely forbidden to drink. By doing so one takes his life and the lives of others into his hands. On the day of Purim all Jews are required to send at least two gifts of food to at least one other Jew. The food must be useable immediately, therefore, uncooked meat and other such food items cannot be used to fulfill the requirement. The two gifts should be two different foods, like an apple and an orange.
Beverages are also acceptable.
Ideally the Shalach Manos should be sent with a messenger. In the days of Mordechai and Esther, in Shushan, the capital, when Haman, the wicked, rose up against them and attempted to destroy, to kill, and to exterminate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, on the same day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions. But You, in Your abundant mercy, wiped out his plan and ruined his scheme and caused his plot to return upon his own head and they hanged him and his sons on the gallows. All rights reserved.