Airline Special Meals

[Guest guest]

When I flew to the states with continental I managed to get the vegan option

which was ok for the dinner (Mexican corn tortilla wrap with fruit salad for

dessert), but useless for breakfast (bread roll with jam) and beverages (no soy

milk for coffee/tea).

The travel agency I booked with said that basically you could have *one* option:

vegan (so wheat/gluten included), gluten-free (so non-vegetarian), or lactose

intolerant (so again non-vegetarian).

It's not like there's only three of us in the world!!!

 

hugs,

GeorgyGirl

Hi There!

 

I was wondering how people handle ordering an airline meal. I am

noticing that most airlines do not really have a vegan gluten free

choice. Depending on the airline, they have several choices asian

vegetarian, Hindu vegetarian strict vegetarian etc.. Really I guess

no one knows what they are getting until the meal arrives. Does

anyone have experience with this? I think I am going to be stuck

bringing my own food but are there any other options for me? I am a

vegan and gluten free with a legume allergy.

 

Cheers

 

Topeka

 

 

[Guest guest]

Agreed. I recently flew to Amsterdam from Vancouver. I had food with

me. Thank God, because the food they served me was beyond atrocious.

It was so bad, I had to have them take it away from me, because the

very smell of it was making me and the people around me sick. It was

unreal. Curried fish? (Never mind that I didn't want fish... they

only let me pick one option, and I went with gluten-free as opposed

to vegetarian or milk-free). But curried fish?! On an airplane? No

thanks. And the stuff beside it (I honestly have *no* clue what it

was) was so bad I had to spit it out. I managed one swallow of the

fish at least, but this other stuff was non-recognisable and horrific

to taste too.

 

Shannon

 

At 01:51 PM 9/25/2005, you wrote:

>Bring your own food or live to regret it.

>

>I have had airlines forget my request, even after I went to the trouble of

>confirming it more than once.

>Or the food was barely edible.

>Holly

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> > Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:28:03 -0000

> > " tainted_d " <tainted_d

> > Airline Special Meals

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> > Hi There!

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> > I was wondering how people handle ordering an airline meal.

[Guest guest]

I'm not doing any flying anytime soon, but my husband and I are

attending a training conference at the end of the month. We booked a

hotel room with a refrigerator and microwave oven and plan to bring

food with us. Even though the conference is providing lunches and a

continental breakfast and my employer is footing the bill for the

whole thing, I'm bringing food. The only time's I've had trouble with

this diet is when I ate out.

 

Since we will be gone for three days, I'm not taking a chance of

becoming ill. I already checked with the hotel banquet manager and

they have no problem with me bringing in my own food for the luncheon

since feeding me would require a major overhaul of their cooking

plans. (Breaded chicken, salad with croutons, bread on the tables, etc.).

 

So here is what's on my menu: bags of salad, a loaf of homemade GF

pumpernickle bread (the only one my hubby will eat), fruit, soy

cheese, Thai noodles (the one's that cook by sitting in hot water), GF

soy sauce, hummus, tortilla chips, refried beans, GF salad dressing

and extra coffee (the hotel rooms never give you enough coffee). I

will probably make a couple of homemade " TV dinners " that we can heat

up in the microwave. Later in the evening, we can go out for drinks or

socialize with our co-workers. My lunch will probably consist of the

soy cheese sandwiches (tomato, lettuce and cucumber), chips and carrot

sticks.

 

> Hi There!

>

> I was wondering how people handle ordering an airline meal.