Our travel have taken us from Oslo to London and then further to Miami and last leg of the trip was to San Jose. Our flights was with American Airlines and its partners.
I thought that it would be easy to get vegetarian food on the flights. I was wrong. I wanted to at least be able to eat vegetarian if nothing else was possible. We brought some fruit to get our calories in the morning which was mostly bananas and clementines. We also had some nuts and a cucumber.
So here is the trouble with airline food today: It´s all about cheese! If the meal is a sandwich, guess what is in it? Ham and cheese. They consider a vegetarian meal to be the sandwich without the ham...
Here is the menu we had on our flights:
BA - Oslo to London : Sandwich with ham or cheese
AA - London to Miami: Meal 1. Pasta with cheese or rice and chicken (with bread and cheese). Snack: Cheese crackers. Meal 2: Pizza with cheese.
AA - Miami to San Jose: Nothing (you could buy nuts and chips)
Since we have different views on cheese in the family I at least managed to get through the flights without any cheese. HOW you might wonder?
First we brought some fruits that I ate on the first flight, then we bought more food at the airport in London. A good tip here is to go to Pret A Manger and buy bananas and other fruits they have in addition to their vegan sandwich (and it is without cheese!). Their sandwich was full of spinach, tomato, red bell pepper, hummus and some spices. The only drawback was the white bread that it had. So we bought 4 packs and some boxes with mixed fruit in addition to few bananas. This lasted all the way to Miami. When on the airport in Miami I was able to find some more boxes with mixed fruit.
If you want to eat and have no dairy in your food while taking a flight you really need to look on what the airlines have on their menus and what they have available on their flights.
Here are some useful sites that I have found after this experience:
Help to order "special food" like gluten free, kosher, vegetarian with a list of airlines.
United Airlines and their "special food" with guide to how to order
Bangkok Airlines with their list of "special food"
So do not do as we did. Check the food available on different airlines and make the decision on what airline and what food to take on your flight. By doing this you would also increase the demand for these kind of "special foods"and make it more likely to have the choices available.
-Thommy
So here is the trouble with airline food today: It´s all about cheese! If the meal is a sandwich, guess what is in it? Ham and cheese. They consider a vegetarian meal to be the sandwich without the ham...
Here is the menu we had on our flights:
BA - Oslo to London : Sandwich with ham or cheese
AA - London to Miami: Meal 1. Pasta with cheese or rice and chicken (with bread and cheese). Snack: Cheese crackers. Meal 2: Pizza with cheese.
AA - Miami to San Jose: Nothing (you could buy nuts and chips)
Since we have different views on cheese in the family I at least managed to get through the flights without any cheese. HOW you might wonder?
First we brought some fruits that I ate on the first flight, then we bought more food at the airport in London. A good tip here is to go to Pret A Manger and buy bananas and other fruits they have in addition to their vegan sandwich (and it is without cheese!). Their sandwich was full of spinach, tomato, red bell pepper, hummus and some spices. The only drawback was the white bread that it had. So we bought 4 packs and some boxes with mixed fruit in addition to few bananas. This lasted all the way to Miami. When on the airport in Miami I was able to find some more boxes with mixed fruit.
If you want to eat and have no dairy in your food while taking a flight you really need to look on what the airlines have on their menus and what they have available on their flights.
Here are some useful sites that I have found after this experience:
Help to order "special food" like gluten free, kosher, vegetarian with a list of airlines.
United Airlines and their "special food" with guide to how to order
Bangkok Airlines with their list of "special food"
So do not do as we did. Check the food available on different airlines and make the decision on what airline and what food to take on your flight. By doing this you would also increase the demand for these kind of "special foods"and make it more likely to have the choices available.
-Thommy
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