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Airline food

veggirl

veggirl

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Surrey
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
I am travelling to Sri Lanka on holiday at the beginning of February, looking forward to lots of curries (no rice!) while I'm there but wondering if anyone has ever tried ordering zero or low carb food for a long haul flight? My experiences of airline food are that snack meals revolve around bread, cake, biscuits etc. Main meals I can probably just not eat the carbs. These days you can't take your own food with you so hopefully I can buy some nuts at the airport. Has anybody got any advice or recent experience?.

Previously I haven't bothered much on the grounds that its just one day but I have put on weight recently and I know my sugars are well up so I want to try and get back to low carb properly for the next 3-6 months and don't want to compromise too much for the flights. I suppose a fasting day is a possibility though eating is a way of passing the time on a long flight.
 
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I traveled recently and carried hard boiled eggs and avocados with no issue. I’m in the states though.
 
I would ask the airline if they can provide meals for Diabetics and what is in them I suspect that the meals might not be suitable.
most curries will contain sugar In Indian Restaurants I always ask which curries do not contain sugar

Since your flight 12/13hrs I suggest you take something like Several cold Hard boiled eggs Avocado as mentioned by Kristin251
and have a really good meal as close to flight time as possible
 
Looks like I will eat a main meal at the airport (its an 8.30pm flight) as I know I can find chicken salad type meal and will then ignore the food on offer and try to sleep and have some nuts to eat for breakfast later that night/ breakfast or whatever the meal counts as at the end of the flight.
 
You can usually take food (but not drink) on with you. The problem is with biosecurity at the other end.
So we sometimes take sandwiches (Lidl roll in my case) and cheese and stuff, accepting that anything not eaten will have to be binned at the other end.
Diabetic meals are no better than normal with regards to carbohydrates, but they tend to tell you how many carbohydrates.
You can normally find some salad, protein and cheese amongst all the other bits and pieces.
 
veggirl said:
I am travelling to Sri Lanka on holiday at the beginning of February, looking forward to lots of curries (no rice!) while I'm there but wondering if anyone has ever tried ordering zero or low carb food for a long haul flight? My experiences of airline food are that snack meals revolve around bread, cake, biscuits etc. Main meals I can probably just not eat the carbs. These days you can't take your own food with you so hopefully I can buy some nuts at the airport. Has anybody got any advice or recent experience?.

Previously I haven't bothered much on the grounds that its just one day but I have put on weight recently and I know my sugars are well up so I want to try and get back to low carb properly for the next 3-6 months and don't want to compromise too much for the flights. I suppose a fasting day is a possibility though eating is a way of passing the time on a long flight.
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Don’t order any special food. It is inedible. Take snacks as airline snacks are expensive!
 
umabell said:
Don’t order any special food. It is inedible.
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I had roast beef and veggies on the BNE to PER leg of a flight to Geraldton last Friday. It was ok and tasted like beef and the veggies were cooked properly, had to give the spud away tho'.
 
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