#137: What to Eat for Seudah Shelishit (Part 1)
- Ideally, one should eat a k’beitzah of bread, or at least a k’zayit, at seudah shelishit, just like at the other Shabbat meals. However, some opinions are more lenient for this meal. Specifically, if one is not hungry, one may rely on those opinions and fulfill the mitzvah by eating a k’beitzah, or minimally a k’zayit, of foods whose berachah is mezonot, such as cake or crackers (Shulchan Aruch, O.C. 291:5).
- If one is too satiated to fulfill the mitzvah with mezonot foods, one may rely on opinions that allow fulfilling the mitzvah even with a k’beitzah or k’zayit of foods whose berachah is ha’eitz, ha’adamah or shehakol, such as tuna, fruit or vegetables. (Shulchan Aruch, ibid.; see Piskei Teshuvot 291:6 for further details). Ideally, one should try to plan one’s schedule and food intake on Shabbat in such a manner that one still has an appetite for eating the minimum amount of bread at Seudah Shelishit.
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