Airplane food

[In Response]

My partner has just booked to visit family in Australia. He’s flying with Qatar Airways and said the choice of meals was huge including low carb. Unfortunately he opted for vegetarian so I won’t be able to report back on their low carb option.

In my experience, Vegetarian means overcooked pasta for most flights.
This is why I tried out Asian Vegetarian and I find the curries (with the very occasional pasta) much more interesting.

The only downside is the racial profiling I've experienced more than once - the air crew walk past me with my meal with my seat number on it but decide it is a mistake to offer an Asian meal to a white person. It has even been offered to the Asian gentleman sitting across the aisle from me who was as disappointed with the service as I was.

 

[aris]

My partner has just booked to visit family in Australia. He’s flying with Qatar Airways and said the choice of meals was huge including low carb. Unfortunately he opted for vegetarian so I won’t be able to report back on their low carb option.

Had a look at their website and didn't see low-carb listed. What class is he flying?

https://www.qatarairways.com/en/services-special/special-meals.html

 

[Grace04]

Had a look at their website and didn't see low-carb listed. What class is he flying?

https://www.qatarairways.com/en/services-special/special-meals.html

Ah, I wonder if at a glance he saw low calorie and hearing me talking about low carb (all the time ) he read it as that. He’s Out at the moment but I’ll check with him when he’s home. I have to say it surprised me when he mentioned it.

 

[aris]

Ah, I wonder if at a glance he saw low calorie and hearing me talking about low carb (all the time ) he read it as that. He’s Out at the moment but I’ll check with him when he’s home. I have to say it surprised me when he mentioned it.

Or maybe low-salt or low-cholesterol.

To be fair - Qatar do seem to have a very good list of alternative meals compared to others.

I was wondering why there was no Halal option - then i saw: Please note, all meals are halal.

 

[Font@nelli]

Also be aware that "diabetic" would mostly be taken to mean Type 1.

so true

 

[DEBBIESCOTT]

A few years ago we had a family holiday to St Lucia with virgin, I booked a diabetic meal weeks in advance, but on the day they said they didn’t have one & no spare meals so gave me a choice of a chocolate bar or a banana, would never fly with them again

 

[Melgar]

A few years ago we had a family holiday to St Lucia with virgin, I booked a diabetic meal weeks in advance, but on the day they said they didn’t have one & no spare meals so gave me a choice of a chocolate bar or a banana, would never fly with them again

Isn't that something eh. They don't tell you until you are up in the air! That happened to me with my no gluten meal request. They had nothing to offer except some mingy cucumbers soaked in vinegar. Luckily for me it was white vinegar. Had it been malt I would not be able to eat that either. And the cheese! The cheese they offered me was this awful highly processed stuff. Their cheeses should come with a warning 'sorry this cheese may look like cheese but really it is just a chemical process with yellow colouring'

 

[AndBreathe]

Ah, I wonder if at a glance he saw low calorie and hearing me talking about low carb (all the time ) he read it as that. He’s Out at the moment but I’ll check with him when he’s home. I have to say it surprised me when he mentioned it.

I did 4 Qatar Airways flights last year, with no LC option. The food was generally good (for airline food), except for one breakfast, but that always seems a lottery on airlines

 

[Grace04]

I did 4 Qatar Airways flights last year, with no LC option. The food was generally good (for airline food), except for one breakfast, but that always seems a lottery on airlines

No, unfortunately it seems they don’t. I’ve checked with him and the airline and he’d misread it. I’ve amended my original post.

 

[Outlier]

Please understand that aircrew have no idea of or control over what catering staff put on board. They just have to take the flak when it isn't suitable.