A new pilot program is allowing some soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, to choose from more food options than is typical.

The Flexible Eating and Expanded Dining, or FEED, program, gives soldiers the option to use their meal entitlements outside of Army-operated facilities. It runs from Aug. 11 to Aug. 25 and involves 200 soldiers with the 61st Quartermaster Battalion, according to an Army release .

The program is an effort to provide dining options that fit the modern soldier’s eating habits, the service said.

“We’ve expected Soldiers in barracks to follow the same eating patterns that we have maintained for decades,” Lt. Gen. Chris Mohan, Army Materiel Command deputy commanding general, said in the release. Mohan is responsible for the Army Food program.

“We’ve expected soldiers to figu

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