Sacrifice, honor, courage, commitment, class, grace, endearing, and brave. The preceding terminolgy for decription are earned through blood, sweat, and tears. The frequently eternal costs accrued to the Armed Forces is the human capital of the past, present, and future veteran. This is incalculable when or where presented the human capacity to ascertain, conceptualize, and entirely comprehend.

The eyes close as if trying to thwart the scortching heat of a searing sun. With eyes wide opened in a gaze yielding the reflection of one or a combination of many thousands of thoughts, perceptions, and realities. Photographic imagery puchased seemingly through the exchange of one's soul and through the mirage of truths, lies, misinformation, unknowns, and uncertainties. Visions of horror reflecting the realistic, the here and now, and potential alternatives assault the mind irreverently. Minutes are exchanged for hours, hours subsequently become days turning into weeks, and the blur of it all calculates into years. Ageless reels which often play continuously. There are no deviations no intermissions and more discovery as time and environmental factors torment the mind and sacrifice the soul mercilessly stealing today, tomorrow, family, friends, and professions.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and entree`s are meals we all partake in at one time or another. Seemingly limitless varieties of pallets and arrays of possibilities abound. The search for ways to simplify and provide adequate nourishment on the fly or for the family sit down meal can seem overwhelming and chore-like. It is difficult enough just to get to the market and then when there ascertain how many vegetables, fruits, spices, and provisions we should purchase as we schedule for meals and the children or family members who are eating you out of house and home like the hungry caterpillars on the binge before cocooning only to patiently burst into butterflies.

Expenses and conveniences of dining out and the ambiance of a new or frequented surrounding can be all too temping when time is scarce and fridge or cupboard resources don't seem to match the appetite at hand. Pulling together and gathering adequate provisions to fill the void and stave of the munchies of a couple hours later requires time and preparation many of us may not always possess. What are a few items we may be able to maintain on hand? The options may be limitless. What are the items to posses among our resources in comparison to other possible options? The just get by or dividend paying.

Lifestyle, home circumstances, and random demands lead us to a myriad of choices, decision, and viable options constantly bringing our taste buds from the Mediterranean, to China, the United Kingdom, and then back to the United States of America albeit perhaps not in that order or tour of nations. It is sometimes challenging for us to consistently pull back the refrigerator door and pear into our cupboard then pull out the perfect combination of meat, vegetables, spices, and other ingredients. Gazing eye-booger like as a child at the collection of leftovers and the combination of fresh ingredients available while wondering about the possibilities of a complete meal suitable to the whole family's mood, taste, schedule, or pallet is a matter of borderline psychosis and extrasensory perception to acquire, acknowledge, and implement. This sometimes being the situation and atmosphere, given various aspects of the human condition, may after much effort posses the somber subtle ambiance equivalent in environment to where peas or pasta is figuratively quality checked on the ceiling or walls.

In some environments and circumstances it may seem odd, foreign, or eccentric to frequent many establishments for ingredients and cooking supplies. Thinking of simple items to combine with other ingredients to provide sustaining nourishment from meal to meal can be difficult. Preparing ahead of time for simpler parts or portions of meals is not only time consuming but resource draining. Given the diversification of the population, environment, culture, and demographic for many of us our resources may be scarce and our options given locale are anywhere from limitless to minimal.