The air force pays me over $400 / month to buy groceries and cook whatever I choose to spend the money on. When I lived in Colorado they gave me over $800 / month because there was no dining facility on base. Dining facility food varies from military base to base, but air force installations are always the best in my experience. The first time I ever had fried catfish was at a base in west texas, really wasn't that bad. The same place also had an omelet station which was nice.