Filling up with a small amount of bread

Hi,

We have noted that one does not recite the birkat hamazon blessing after eating unless he has eaten a minimum of an olive-sized amount of bread. This is true even if one is now entirely full.

(Rivivot Ephraim 1:145)

Have a good day,
Mordechai

How much bread?

Hi,

In order for one's hamotzi on bread to cover the blessings for other food he eats in that meal, one must eat at least an olive-sized amount of bread, and during a span of only a few minutes. Other foods do not combine with the bread to reach that threshold.

The same standard applies in terms of birkat hamazon - other foods do not combine with the bread to trigger an obligation to recite birkat hamazon.

(Rivivot Ephraim 1:144)

המצפה לישועה,
Mordechai

Birkat haMazon for eating small quantities of bread at a meal

Hi,

One who ate a full meal, but only ate less than an olive-sized amount of bread at the meal, does not recite Birkat haMazon. One should only recite the closing berachah associated with those foods for which he consumed the threshold amount to require that berachah.

(Rav Moshe Feinstein, Igrot Moshe Orach Chaim 4:41)

Have a great day,
Mordechai