Tosefta for Bava Metzia 178:2
התם משום ביטול מלאכה כי קא מיבעיא לן היכא דאיכא אשתו ובניו מאי
What is the ruling? — Come and hear: Labourers may eat the top most grapes of the [vine-] rows,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They may conserve their appetite till they reach these, which being more exposed to the sun than the lower ones, are sweeter (Rashi). ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Tosefta Maasrot
Workers that were hoeing among the fig trees or picking dates or harvesting olives -- they may eat and are exempt, since the Torah gave them permission (see Deut. 23:25-26). [But] they may not dip [the figs or olives] in salt and eat unless the homeowner gave them permission, and they may not eat them with bread unless the the homeowner gave them permission.
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