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I am on a mission to convert British Airways to do something about their poor catering for Diabetics.
I can catalogue a whole range of awful and inappropriate meals served to me as a Diabetic but it is rather pointless. Let me simply highlight one flight last week on 13th November LHR to Muscat . The starter course was a prawn cocktail which is fine and was on the general menu anyway. The main diabetic course was chicken and rice ! – so the excellent Cabin Crew lass brought me some Chicken curry and vegetables from First Class instead. For afternoon tea there was nothing offered specific to for diabetics and at the sight of a scone, strawberry jam and clotted cream I almost fainted... I left the flight after 9 hours starving. Flying long haul and particularly long overnight flights crossing many time zones sends my BG levels all over the place and always takes 3 or 4 days to settle back down again, so any help from airlines to cater for us properly would be really welcome.
Last night flying back, the snacks offered were standard – only one of which I could eat. The diabetic breakfast was some awful boiled chicken with potatoes so again I declined and instead had the fresh fruit and English breakfast which is a perfectly good option for any diabetic.
I don’t know why their dietician advisors cannot be more imaginative and produce food that is appetising and nourishing. A spinach salad with perhaps stilton cheese; poached salmon with salad and vegetables and for snacks perhaps some fruit or crudités. Doesnt seem to me that difficult. Currently they seem to put the Low Card, Bland, Diabetic meals into one.
Thanks for reading..
Desertbear42
I can catalogue a whole range of awful and inappropriate meals served to me as a Diabetic but it is rather pointless. Let me simply highlight one flight last week on 13th November LHR to Muscat . The starter course was a prawn cocktail which is fine and was on the general menu anyway. The main diabetic course was chicken and rice ! – so the excellent Cabin Crew lass brought me some Chicken curry and vegetables from First Class instead. For afternoon tea there was nothing offered specific to for diabetics and at the sight of a scone, strawberry jam and clotted cream I almost fainted... I left the flight after 9 hours starving. Flying long haul and particularly long overnight flights crossing many time zones sends my BG levels all over the place and always takes 3 or 4 days to settle back down again, so any help from airlines to cater for us properly would be really welcome.
Last night flying back, the snacks offered were standard – only one of which I could eat. The diabetic breakfast was some awful boiled chicken with potatoes so again I declined and instead had the fresh fruit and English breakfast which is a perfectly good option for any diabetic.
I don’t know why their dietician advisors cannot be more imaginative and produce food that is appetising and nourishing. A spinach salad with perhaps stilton cheese; poached salmon with salad and vegetables and for snacks perhaps some fruit or crudités. Doesnt seem to me that difficult. Currently they seem to put the Low Card, Bland, Diabetic meals into one.
Thanks for reading..
Desertbear42