Hi, I may be able to help with the food thing. Be handy to have a screenshot of your events though.
"Try setting the animation speed to 0.
Or make your tile map solid.
Or take physics off if it's a behavior on the food.
It does sound like an animation thing though. Post a capx. I probably can help.
With the movement thing, I play about with the platform settings to make it more fluid. But I'm guessing you know about this?
Hope this helps 😏