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Airline Diabetic catering

Yet another one of those joyful situations where people don't listen to the actual person, preferring to go with "we have the stuff you need" because they have "done a course on it". Like all those times I am told how I need to have my wheelchair handled because they know what's best for me because they've done wheelchairs at airline school. If you say you need this and that because you are diabetic you end up with "the diabetic meal" because they know what you need becuase why would it say diabetic meal on it if it weren't a meal for diabetics? :evil:
 
Like some, I always eat before take-off and take my own food. I always have nuts with me too. Twice I have, on 4 hour flights, only taken nuts and been told that as someone on board has a nut allergy, no-one is allowed to have any sort of nuts and they won't be selling them. How annoying is that! I wish they could find some way of telling everyone before they board that nuts are forbidden. I was stuck then with nothing so bought a tube of pringles at vastly inflated prices, too salty, too much msg and too much fat whilst never enough in the box. Nuts on airlines isn't always the answer.
 
I only eat kosher food and as a type 2 on no meds I eat just the salad starter and the meat part of the kosher meal and leave the rest. I always have nuts with me and oat cakes in a little tupperware box so they don't crumble to bits!! Low GI protein bars I buy from the health food shop are also useful and delicious as well as filling with a drink. Boots have the Atkins ones but they are not veggie. My grouse is that yoghurts at breakfast are always sweetened fruit ones and no natural ones to be seen. On long haul when hungry I say i am diabetic and ask for cheese (with my oatcakes)as the snacks are sandwiches, huge apples, crisps or chocolate bars. They can always find those little portions of cheese in the cellophane that are so impossible to open. At the moment I am food intolerent to eggs so what I will do with my next long haul flight for the kosher breakfast (always a vegetabke omelette) I don't know!!

Charter flights I always take my own salad box and in some airports you can get one made up in the departure lounge cafes. Cosco do huge cheap salads in a box that are delicious.

I take my green tabags with me and get hot water in a cup from the galley. You can get away with this on schedule flights but not the budget ones
 
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