The heal from Short Rest and Long Rest assumes you are eating food as part of the resting.
The food items in BG3 function mechanically exactly like healing potions. Just get rid of them. Eating pork chops while fighting goblins in melee belongs in a game with a more comical style.
If they want some kind of a food system, do it like Pathfinder where you can cook special meals during Long Rest (Survival check, ingredients) for MINOR buffs like +1 to Con saves or +1d8 temporary HP.
could be fixed just by making the eat option out of combat only, which they use for pray of healing.
