Related for Eruvin 57:15

גופא אמר רב מערבין בשתי רביעיות של יין ומי בעינן כולי האי והתניא רבי שמעון בן אלעזר אומר יין כדי לאכול בו חומץ כדי לטבל בו זיתים ובצלים כדי לאכול בהן שתי סעודות

This is conclusive. The Master said: 'Or [to make up the quantity of] food for two meals required for an 'erub'. R'Joseph intended to lay down that [no 'erub may be prepared] unless there is sufficient food of each kind to provide for a complete meal,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'until there is a meal from this and a meal from this', sc. that only two kinds of food may be used so that each kind suffices for One full meal of the two meals prescribed. Were more than two kinds of food to be allowed, each would represent less than the quantity required for one full meal.');">47 but Rabbah said to him: Even [if each kind of food consisted only] of a half, a third or a quarter [of a meal].48

Tosefta Peah

We do not reduce [the agricultural gifts] to the poor during the years of of the poor person's tithe (i.e., the third and sixth years of the agricultural cycle) to less than half a kav of wheat or a kav of barley (Peah 8:5). In what context does this apply? [For grain that has been brought in to] the threshing floor, but [for grain brought] inside his house, we give [the poor person] any amount (כל שהו not כל שדהו), and we are not concerned [that it is too little]. And [similarly for] the remainder of the priestly gifts and the [gifts for the] Levite, we give any amount, and we are not concerned [that it is too little]. [If he is saving some to give to his poor relatives, see Peah 8:6], he can save half and give half. Abba Yosa ben Dostai said in the name of Rabbi Eliezer, "[If he] wants, he [can] place before [the poor people] a third and retain two-thirds for his [poor] relatives."

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