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help with planning meals for a long days travel

Hey, finally found this thread! Am I too late? Have you winged your way off by now?

The way we try and get around dreadful airline meals is to get to the airport a bit early and stuff ourselves with one of the massively expensive 24hr breakfasts they serve in the duty free lounge.

Then it is nothing but water til the plane lands...

We miscalculated on a trip to Texas once (it was around the time of the new security measures) and we didn't have long enough to eat before being called to the plane.

It was awful.

4 hr drive, no food because of course we would be eating at the airport. About 4 hours queuing. Straight to plane, no food on the 5 hr flight (it was a night flight or something, and all they could offer were pretzels, which i politely declined), then another 1.5 hours queuing with the US arrival stuff.

Mr B was in a state of mild terror the whole time, because he has experienced my hypos before. Luckily I had been low carbing, so I just got low, rather than doing the kill-maim-slaughter-rage hypo-ritual.

The airline might have been pleased too, if they had known...

And so we lived to tell the tale :)
 
Brunneria said:
Hey, finally found this thread! Am I too late? Have you winged your way off by now?

The way we try and get around dreadful airline meals is to get to the airport a bit early and stuff ourselves with one of the massively expensive 24hr breakfasts they serve in the duty free lounge.

Then it is nothing but water til the plane lands...

We miscalculated on a trip to Texas once (it was around the time of the new security measures) and we didn't have long enough to eat before being called to the plane.

It was awful.

4 hr drive, no food because of course we would be eating at the airport. About 4 hours queuing. Straight to plane, no food on the 5 hr flight (it was a night flight or something, and all they could offer were pretzels, which i politely declined), then another 1.5 hours queuing with the US arrival stuff.

Mr B was in a state of mild terror the whole time, because he has experienced my hypos before. Luckily I had been low carbing, so I just got low, rather than doing the kill-maim-slaughter-rage hypo-ritual.

The airline might have been pleased too, if they had known...

And so we lived to tell the tale :)
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hi, still here not going till September, thanks for the advice. i plan to do breakfast before we go, leaving around 10am, we will eat at the airport, i've been reading Dr Bernstein who says it's important to leave 4 or 5 hrs between eating, or it keeps our bs up, so i can go without food on the flight to New York, my problem is we have 2 hrs between getting there and connecting flight, have no idea if there is time to eat, then when we get to Canada, should i have something light before going to bed, it will be about 11pm their time, i haven't had to think about this before, i think planning ahead is the key to not eating wrong (wrong for me). thanks again, if i'm a bit slow in responding, husband working away, home for weekend so getting my attention, he's been a rock to me in all this.
 
Hey Jill, personally I would test and see what levels are like, if your hungry have a light snack before going to bed, That's how I do it when travelling xx
 
Mrsass said:
Hey Jill, personally I would test and see what levels are like, if your hungry have a light snack before going to bed, That's how I do it when travelling xx
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thanks for that, it's my first time traveling with diabetes, so got myself in a twirl, i feel calmer now, i'm glad of the help
 
AndBreathe said:
Jill - I have had a few diabetic meals on long hauls, since diagnosis. The meal seems to have been based on the Healthy Plate, rather than low carb, so I have mixed feelings about how critical it is to order a specialist meal. In summary, I'd say lunch and dinner have few advantages over the "normal" meal, with the biggest difference being the substitution of a fruit iotion instead of a sweet, carby pudding. Breakfast, on the other hand, was slightly better. On the diabetic option, I had a rice cracker substituted for the blueberry muffin or bread roll (depending on route). On the upside, the portion sized are small anyway, so any carbs ingested will be modest amounts.

My bloods generally behave whilst travelling, although obviously the time shifts each way have a brief impact, but that's mainly due to the jetlag, rather then diet.

And finally, I usually have something in my handbag/carry-on, should I either get very hungry or if I just don't fancy the food available. Lately, that's been a small packet of salted peanuts. They don't take up any space and won't off in any temperature extremes.

Enjoy your trip.
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I thought peanuts where banned from airlines nowadays?
 
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