It's not terribly hard to put a plastic or cardboard box top over the main area of substrate where you're going to offer & feed your snake. You can even use a real plate, or a shallow tub that fits inside the main tank/enclosure- your choice. Your hungry snake will follow that prey into or over that "plate" to grab & eat. This is far better than picking up the snake, which has been known to kill their entire appetite for the day.
And you should be using feeding tongs too- they come in handy now & then to pull a bit of substrate out of a snake's mouth if you see they've still managed to pick some up while eating. Very easy.