I remember when I was in ROTC I had to do training one summer. It wasn't particularly difficult, though as a part of training there's a lot of artificial stress

I remember when I was in ROTC I had to do training one summer. It wasn't particularly difficult, though as a part of training there's a lot of artificial stress placed on you. One source of artificial stress was timed meals. You had 5 minutes to eat your entire meal while sitting at attention. Since most of your day is spent marching around, this meant you were extra hungry at meal times. I found myself optimizing for calories per second. The first day at training I had eggs and toast for breakfast, but the dry toast took up a long time to chew and swallow. Subsequent days I followed the example of my peers and got a big bowl of grits (which I usually never eat) for breakfast which I could wolf down without chewing. By the end of training I had grown to love grits. So, long story short, one benefit I found for timed eating was a newfound love of a food I previously never tried.