You Can Eat Before Giving Mishlo’ach Manos!

Let alone before giving to everyone on your list.

Rabbi Avi Wiesenfeld quotes Rabbi Elyashiv who made the following ingenious argument:

Since eating on Purim is also a mitzvah, there is no special order of the mitzvos of the day. כפתור ופרח.

I suspect some people (children! I meant children!) misbehave on Purim since they haven’t had a solid meal yet…

For more, follow the references here (I haven’t).