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1)When eating an Ikar and a Tafel, even if the Tafel is more enjoyable to you than the Ikar, the fact that it is being eaten together with, or immediately after the Ikar for the purpose of the Ikar, makes it retain its status a s a Tafel and no Bracha is recited on it. (Mishna Berura Siman 212:5. The Gaon of Vilna does not necessarily concur with this ruling. See also Taz 212:3) 2) When eating an Ikar and a Tafel, even after the Ikar has been totally consumed, and all that is left is the Tafel, still the Tafel may be finished without a Bracha, as it retains its status as a Tafel.
Thus for example, when eating Cheerios and milk, when all the cheerios are finished, the milk may be drunk on its own without any Bracha. (See Mishna Berura Siman 168:46 and Shulchan Aruch HaRav 212:1-5. See also Orchos Rabbeinu page 81where they bring a story about the Steipler Zatzal who once ate a cookie dipped in tea, making a Bracha on the cookie and eating the cookie with a spoon. When the cookie was finished, he drank the rest of the tea without a Bracha and when he was done just recited Al Hamichya) However, if after the Tafel was finished, one wanted more of the Tafel food, the new item needs a Bracha. Thus, if after the Cheerios and the milk were finished, you added more plain milk into the bowl, a SheHakol would be required. (See Sefer Birchas Yisroel Perek 3 S"K 215)
Halachos for Shabbos Kodesh
1) If one is in doubt which of the two foods he/she is about to eat is the Ikar and which is the Tafel, they should be separated and individual Brachos recited on each item.
The above solution would only work for 2 distinct items which can and are eaten separately often ( such as apples and peanut butter or potato Latkes and apple sauce)
However, in the case of a mixture of two items where one of the items is clearly the main item (such as yogurt with pieces of fruit, where clearly the person eating it was in the mood of a yogurt, and not in the mood of some fruit) the items may not be separated and 2 Brachos recited, as doing so would constitute a Bracha Sh’Aina Tzericha. (See Mishna Berura Siman 168:43. See Shu"t Har Tzvi Siman 100 that perhaps on Shabbos it would be permissible to separate them, in order to reach 100 Brachos.) 2) If one only wants to eat the Tafel, of course it requires its own Bracha.
Similarly, if one wants to eat the Tafel now, and the Ikar later on, the Tafel requires its own Bracha. Thus in the case of the yogurt, if you are eating the fruit now, and you plan to finish the yogurt much later, the fruit would indeed require a Ha’Eitz. (See Mishna Berura Siman 168:46 and Aruch HaShulchan 212:2.) However, the Poskim debate how much time must elapse between the fruit and the yogurt to be considered "later". Therefore, if they will be eaten very close together it is best to make a Bracha on the Yogurt and eat a little first, or alternatively to make a Bracha on a different fruit and have in mind to exempt the fruit in the yogurt. (See Ketzos HaShulchan Siman 58:10)
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