Thread title says it all. Yes, it's an action to eat 1. Surely you could eat a handful (five?) with one action.
As a GM I would rule that you can eat more then one good berry a turn, but only one per action would heal you. Good berry is great for getting a downed allie to 1hp or for healing out of combat.
Respectifully, i would disagree. Spell says each berry restores 1 hit point. Spell slots are valuable, i would not devalue it even more by creating such a houserule. But totally DM's call if they want to make additional rulings.
Lharn wrote:
you can eat as many goodberries as you like , but at a rate of 1/turn.
Jeremy Crawford clarified that the intent is 1 berry/action;
@JeremyECrawford The intent for the spell is only one berry per action.
dwgautier wrote:
teron82 wrote:
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Yunru wrote:
How many? 3. If you eat more than that you get the shits so bad you go blind.
Goodberrries are game breakingly powerful but not for their in combat healing. Prior to taking a long rest, you can expend all remaining spell slots on goodberries. For the next day you will have a bunch of goodberries and all your spell slots still remaining. Though they are really sub par as in combat healing, you can heal injured members of your party to full without having them rest by giving them goodberries out of combat.
We had to make a rule that elves are only allowed to meditate once in a 24 hour period because my Wood Elf Druid was going nuts with goodberries and long rests. He was using all his spell slots on goodberries and then long resting so he was ending up with 100+ goodberries for the day and all spell slots remaining.
What if the goodberry was the size of a medium or large strawberry? As far as I'm aware the size is not defined. They could be about 2-in diameter, which would mean one one goodberry per turn.
It would be ironic, wouldn't it, to choke on a goodberry while unconscious and die from it, hey? 
Oakenheels wrote:
Griffon23 wrote:
2Chlorobutanal wrote:
i can quickly put a handful of small food items [e.g. nuts, MMs, etc...] in my mouth and then i can eat one at a time as slow or as fast i want, heck i can even put sunflower seeds with the shells on them in my mount and split, open and extract the seed. why can't my character pop a hand ful of good berries in its mount but only eat one a round?
Why is drinking a Potion of Healing more difficult than drinking the same quantity of alcohol or water? It keeps the game from getting too silly.
Also note, it takes 8 hours to do a long rest, no matter what race you are. The elf ability allows it to sleep less, not to long rest faster.
ASilva91084 wrote:
Remember that a tomato is a berry (as is a watermelon, for that matter...) Maybe Goodberries are so nourishing because the spell conjures 10 half-pound beefsteak tomatoes. How many of those can you cram in your gob in six seconds?
Yunru wrote:
Anyway, playing forum bingo, I'm crossing off my 'Person who argues realism when it would benefit them, but never argues realism when it'd make them lose something. So not about realism' box.
Well, I'm crossing it off again after the monk standing thread.
ASilva91084 wrote:
ASilva91084 wrote:
As a DM, I would side with the rules on this. Regardless how many berries you can eat at once, only one can work its magic on you at a time. Or, to put it another way, eating two berries at once is redundant; the magics on both are trying to do the same thing at the same time, which is functionally identical to eating just one.
You would be somewhat less hungry, though.
dwgautier wrote:
Little boy: "Mr. Owl, how many goodberries can you eat with one casting of the goodberry spell?"
Mr. Owl: -Takes the goodberries from the boy- "Let's find out! One!" -eats a goodberry- "Two!" -eats a goodberry- "Ten!" -eats the rest of the goodberries in one big bunch- -Looks back at the little boy- "Ten."