Originally Posted by zakhal 
Uo7 was simply too extreme with food - you had too many party members which needed to be fed manually too often using a mousedriven interface to open up backpacks and doubleclick small bits of food.
I agree. I remember the same thing in U6, it took me a while to figure out that I needed to double click the food to make them eat! I like having to supply the food, but spoon feeding is a bit over the top! IIRC, that was something they fixed in Exult for U7.