He bought some food today.
Because there is a word (today) so we use past tense(bought)
Using past tense:
We use the simple past tense to talk about things that happened in the past . We often use the simple past tense with time words. We can put the time words at the beginning or at the end of a sentence. Some common time words include ‘yesterday’, ‘last week’, ‘last month’ and ‘three years ago’.