snacks while flying?

[Pax]

If you were Macgyver you could make a meal out of that bandaid and chapstick!

[OakLeaf]

I know! What they serve is just so yummy!

Bandaid and chapstick would actually be an improvement on some airline meals. (Mmmm, cheese sandwich.) That's why I love Air France Their food is actually kind of edible, plus you get a glass of drinkable wine.

Ordering any of the "special" meals is usually a good idea, too (vegetarian, kosher, halal, Hindu, etc.), regardless of whether you really "need" it. They don't ask for a note from your spiritual adviser .

[Tuckervill]

Grapes.

I haven't figured out how to get enough water on a long flight, now that you can't bring your own I always get two of the little sip bottles whenever the flight attendants bring them around, but they never come around enough. Maybe I should start asking for four

Can't you buy a bottle of water in the little shop after you go through security? I mean, who wants to pay $3 for a bottle of water? But it's better than drinking from the tank on that plane! Or waiting for the flight attendant.

Karen

[shootingstar]

All of you ..are so organized..

I just take advantage of the free scraps...baby pretzels, coffee or tomato juice during the flight. In the past few years, the longest flights I've taken have been 3 hrs. usually between Toronto and Vancouver.

And before the flight, is when I do allow myself 1 or 2 pieces of junky-like food from airport food court areas....often a muffin and at most a sandwich.

However if I got myself organized the day before I would pop over to our favourite rustic bakery and buy their focaccia. If it's a day stale, so what....healthier.. than potato chips.

[crazycanuck]

I need to start thinking about this as well.. for our flights from Perth-Singapore(5hrs) Singapore-Seoul(7 1/2hrs and then a 2 day stop over in Seoul!) Seoul-Vancouver 8hrs+.. GAH! Return flight..BLECh..Van-singapore-Perth..direct..

I don't want to remind myself how long each flight is but I get to see mah familiyyyy and some TE chickies

[uk elephant]

I always bring an empty nalgene bottle, then fill it up from the water fountain on the other side of security. Free and drinkable water. Just make sure to put your empty bottle on the outside of your carry on bag when you go through security so they don't have to search your bag to confirm it's empty. As for food, I do the same as when I got to work in the morning. I pack sandwiches, fruit and some chocolate. Only thing to consider is that you have to eat the food before going through customs at the other end. I nearly got in trouble for bringing salami in to the US except I had already eaten it. The sniffer dogs were very eagerly sniffing my bag where the empty lunchbox was.

[Aquila]

On a flight from Malaysia to Japan recently, they served onigiri, a rice ball (except it's a packaged triangle), and it was perfect, just filling enough, tasty, and reasonably healthy (compared with chips and stuff). But I wouldn't know how to make my own or find them in the US.

[OakLeaf]

On a flight from Malaysia to Japan recently, they served onigiri, a rice ball (except it's a packaged triangle), and it was perfect, just filling enough, tasty, and reasonably healthy (compared with chips and stuff). But I wouldn't know how to make my own or find them in the US.

Oh, that sounds good! Is it just a ball of sushi rice? That's easy enough. We just started getting brown sweet rice in the local stores, too. It works fine for maki, but I'm not sure whether it would hold together quite well enough for nigiri. I haven't even mastered white rice nigiri... but if all I have to do is squeeze it together and jam it in a ziploc bag, then the only challenge is convincing security it's not a "gel"