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"1 cup .. cold cereal*
1/3 cup of powdered milk
2 tsp of sugar or 1 packet artificial sweetener
1/2 cup cold water
1 resealable ... bag
1. Put all the ingredients in the bag.
2. When ready to eat, add water and reseal the bag.
3. Shake the bag to dissolve the milk and sugar.
4. Open the bag and eat immediately with a spoon.
5. Write a note to yourself to never do that again unless you become an astronaut." (35)

"BACON BARS
...
After sampling the bar—so that you could say that you tried it—give the rest to the family dog. One nibble, and Fido will prance about the house barking (Translation: 'It's BACON!')." (35)

"NASA freeze dries the eggs, adds water back, and freeze dries them a second time. ... The basic scrambled egg formulation has been around since the Apollo days. Originally a commercial company made them for NASA. When it went out of business the company gave the 'secret of the eggs' to NASA to use for space shuttle flights." (33) THE SECRET OF THE EGGS

"In the recipes that follow, the SS stands for 'space shuttle/space station.'
SS SCRAMBLED EGGS" (33) VERY IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION

"The great lifting power of the shuttles engine permitted food scientists to leave some of the natural water in space shuttle foods, which made them taste better and easier to prepare" (5) classic parallelism error