any tips for surviving feeding time with my rescue cat

I adopted a young cat from the rspca almost 3 month ago, he will be one in january so still a kitten really. He was taken from his previous owners over welfare concerns dont know exact details exept for he was kept in a cupboard for a long time as the lady thought he would harm her baby.he has a strange little personality mostly very sweet and chatty the behaviour that I need help solving is his how he acts around meal times he gets rather desperate for food to the point I nearly always end up bruised and/ or bleeding. I don't prepare the his food in the same room as him and he eats in a total different room as the others as he will growl/ attack them for their food after hes wolfed down his but even if I slide the food to him he endeds up getting me to get the food faster. Hes not doing it in a aggressive way more like hes never been fed kind of way. No idea how to make him realise he will get fed again lol. He will sit for hours kneading and suckling my top purring away hes very much like a overgrown baby occasionally he seems to all of a sudden get scared and will growl/ hiss but then is soon friendly again. Any advice would be great, hes a great cat but

Obviously he's scared he won't be fed.
Can you not put his food down while he's not there and then call him?

I think in time this behavior will stop.I would try and get the food down before he comes into the room .

Cats can tell the time, so if you keep to a strict schedule of feeding times, soon he'll get used to the idea and have more trust that that's not the last food he's ever going to get.

Our cat was 9 months old when we got him from the shelter and definitely had what I call "shelter pet syndrome", meaning he acts like he thinks every meal could be his last. He was suffering from malnourishment due to a health problem (IBD), too. He did a lot of jumping and clawing at me early on when I was getting his meals ready. What I did was start clicker training him, and the first command he learned was "sit". It only took him a few minutes to master it. Now - he'll have been here for two years in March - he still pesters for food all the time and gets overly excited around mealtimes, but he knows to sit till I put his food down on the floor in front of him.

There are several videos about clicker training on YouTube and quite a few books on the subject. It works very well with food-driven cats. Mogli has learned a number of commands and really enjoys our daily sessions.

Clicker Training for Cats
Clicker training threads

One of our older cats showed up one day, decided he likes our place and stayed for good, i guess someone must have dumped him... anyway the first 2 years though he'd selected us he'd always give me a taste of his mighty claws when i'd put his bowl in front of him so that i'd ask my husband to go deal with him

Today though I've still a LOT of respect for his moods, we're the best of friends and when I put his bowl down for him he'll rub his head all over my hand

It's take time and a lot patience - I'm sure in time he'll realize that you or the others in your household are not going to take his food away...