At least once or twice within our lifetimes, many of us will decide to try the cure-all diet that will fix the body's slowing metabolism.  Sometimes we even become vegetarian, vegan, or lacto-pesco-ovo.  Certain that this diet will be the solution, we suffer, starve, cut down portions, binge and sacrifice - all in the hope of finding the hidden person underneath all those cushy layers.  But what are we really searching for buried under those extra pounds?  Are we searching to relive the youth we had, the inexperience, days of uncertainty as to where our future would place us?  Are we longing to regain a slimmer body that reminds us of what it is to be carefree or less responsible, now that responsibility greets us every morning with no let up?  In this week's parasha, we find the Children of Israel begging for a diet change - one that is merely a guise for returning to something familiar, far away and forbidden.  However, they quickly learn that their desire to change their current food plan does not match the soul diet of Hashem; the regime they need to follow has little to do with their palates or ways of the past.  Their gluttonous cravings for meat are but a cover for their inability to forget their unchecked and blithe ways of old.  As we look at the menu this week, we need to be ever mindful of the effect our own appetites have on our spiritual growth.