Alleviate pressure on my total earlier food intake (8)
I believe the answer is:
palliate
'alleviate' is the definition.
(I know that alleviate can be written as palliate)
'pressure on my total earlier food intake' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'pressure' could be 'p' (abbreviation) and 'p' is located in the answer.
'on' could be 'at' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'at' is present in the answer.
'total' could be 'all' (I've seen this before) and 'all' is found within the answer.
'food' could be 'e' (E is an example) and 'e' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'i' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for palliate that I've seen before include "Eat a pill (anag) - make easier" , "Mitigate (something bad)" , "Soften (the effect of)" , "Allay" , "everything before I cut into spread" .)