She and her colleagues ate MREs (military meals ready to eat) and worked 12-plus hour days every day.

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Mmm, yes. (Laughter.) You ate what she fixed, and if you didn't eat that, then you didn't eat.

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The Raines family ate beans so often "I'm amazed I can still eat them, " Frank says now.

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