Bring food first and eat away (5)
I believe the answer is:
fetch
'bring' is the definition.
(I know that bring can be written as fetch)
'food first and eat away' is the wordplay.
'food first' becomes 'f' (est letter of 'food').
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'eat away' becomes 'etch' (I've seen this before).
'f'+'etch'='FETCH'
(Other definitions for fetch that I've seen before include "Command to a gun dog" , "double" , "Order to dog to retrieve thrown stick" , "Sell for" , "Go and get back, like dog with stick" .)