How Do You Eat Food?

[Book]

I just got the game and so far I like it. My hunger is going down and I tried eating the bread but my character won't eat. I tried putting the bread on my hot bar and right clicking but that doesn't work. Left click doesn't work. So how do I eat food in this game?

[Fair]

Placing it in the hotbar and left clicking outside in the world, or simply dragging it around while your inventory is open and left clicking outside in the world like you would with mining or using a sword should do it :)
Are you sure you have tried that?

[Furious Kaiser]

Dragging it out of the inventory and left clicking is what I usually do. (Right clicking out of the inventory just throws it on the ground).

I usually keep a stack of blueberries around to eat a bunch if I am not going dungeon diving or boss fighting. Blueberries are easy to collect a bunch of if you collect bushes when you see them and plant them near your home (hit the bushes with the ax to collect them.) Otherwise I save more expensive foods with the better buffs for dungeons and bosses.

Remember that the last piece of food you eat is the food buff you keep, they don't stack buffs. Found that out the hard way by munching a cheeseburger, then topped off with a few berries and saw that I only had the tiny buff from the blueberries instead of the nicer buffs from the cheeseburger.

[Book]

Thanks for the help and advice.

[Zanbo]

Thank you man

[marvinn]

Is there any particular reason why we just can't right click on food or other consumables in inventory to use it?
Dragging it on the bar, using it and dragging it back to inventory is 12 clicks! Including opening and closing inventory.
It's only 3 click is you could use it by right click. That's 75% fewer actions.

[Fair]

You can grab it, then click out in the world like you do when eating it from the hotbar, and then place it back in the same slot. 3 clicks needed. There is also an eat food hotkey you can bind if you want :)
Right click is reserved to split stacks, except for a few items that doesn't stack like pouches etc.

[Aberro]

Uh... Left clicking just drags the item in the inventory... Right clicking throws it away. Placing it in hotbar and selecting does nothing... I think you need a tutorial for that.
Upd.: ah, left clicking while the item is selected...