lunch on the plane ride

[cockermon]

When we travel at lunchtime- I make turkey breast or ham sandwiches.
I also add baby carrots, grapes, chips or granola bar.
We take empty water bottles that we fill before getting on plane OR use the soda we get on the plane.
To keep everything cold- I use an insulated lunch bag.
Instead of gel cold pack ( not TSA approved) - use a package of cheap frozen veggies ( i.e. store brand frozen peas on sale 79 cents).
Cheap, tasty & nutritious.

Cathy

 

[Handbag Lady]

I have a very strange job and sometimes I have to order lunch for clients who will be eating them on airplanes.

I've found that deli shops near airports can make inexpensive "airplane" boxed lunches. Most of these come with a full sandwich (turkey, etc.) and chips and a cookie or some other treat. They also package them up to get through security for you, such that security can see it is food but they don't need to open the clear containers to inspect the food.

Also, that is a really long day in the air so bring snacks, too. Chips, nuts, pretzels, cheese sticks, etc. A few treats for the kids would be nice, too. It gets boring that long on a plane.

 

[sookie]

Peanut butter can be eaten if there is someone with an allergy on the plane unless you plan on giving them some. It isn't airborne and I would be eating my peanut butter.

peanut butter on ritz is also good

actually - you are wrong.
some people can be so sensitive that the little particles in the air can set them off into an anaphylactic attack.
a nut allergy is life threatening. with these allergies, a person can DIE within less than 2 minutes. It's not - oh - they get an upset stomach, puke, get diarrhea - it is DEAD.
not a good situation. so - lets say you are sitting next to someone or even the seat behind - and they pull out their sandwhich. there is a chance - depending on how allergic the person is - that if they are in close proximety to the person eating the food, they can begin to have an allergic reaction.

if you would be eating your peanut butter anyway, you are an insensitive person who would be putting the LIFE of another person at risk. i'd rethink that if i were you!

 

[sritter78]

Please don't take PB on a flight. My nephew is fatally allergic to peanuts. If you eat PB, touch the bathroom door and then he touches it, he will go into anaphalatic shock within minutes.

 

[dis-happy]

I don't want to pay $8 a piece for our family of 6 to eat lunch on the plane. Our flight is from 9:00 am-4:30 pm and therefore requires that we eat something! What are some good ideas for lunch on the plane? We brought pb+j sandwiches last year, but the jam leaked through the bread and made soggy sandwiches. We won't have a cooler. Can you give me some quick ideas? We leave on Friday for a night over at my mom's then fly out Saturday morning.
Can you help me out?
BTW I am bringing kids the following ages: 5, 12, 13, 15, 16. The older ones are pretty big eaters.

Is your flight really 7.5 hours or are you taking the time change into account? I usually fly coast to coast NS in 5 hrs, or 4.5 going west to east. If you're really landing at 1:30 your time maybe you can get by with some easy to pack snacks and just eat when you land. If you have a stop-over it's easy to catch a bite then too. Just throwing that possibility out there....

 

[battricia]

i agree w/ bagels/cream cheese (put the cream cheese on before you get to the airport), then also maybe a few cans of pringles or a bag of chips... and a bag of dried fruit/trail mix for some variety (or a few bags of MnMs or whatever else).

 

[DFD]

last time I went to Vegas from BWI... my seat mate have hard boiled eggs and toast! I only have junk potato chips, chocolates etc..

what happend if the airlines gives out peanuts and soda ???

 

[Willow1213]

Is your flight really 7.5 hours or are you taking the time change into account? I usually fly coast to coast NS in 5 hrs, or 4.5 going west to east. If you're really landing at 1:30 your time maybe you can get by with some easy to pack snacks and just eat when you land. If you have a stop-over it's easy to catch a bite then too. Just throwing that possibility out there....

This was my exact thought too. Even though you take off at 9am and land at 4:30 pm you are actually spending only 4.5 hours in the air with the time change. If it were me, I would eat a good breakfast and pack hearty snacks for the plane still, but save the big "lunch" for when you get off the plane. It will be 4:30 Orlando time. By the time you get to your resort you can go to an early dinner in Disney. This to me is much more exciting than a sandwich on the plane.

 

[Order66]

I don't want to pay $8 a piece for our family of 6 to eat lunch on the plane. Our flight is from 9:00 am-4:30 pm and therefore requires that we eat something! What are some good ideas for lunch on the plane? We brought pb+j sandwiches last year, but the jam leaked through the bread and made soggy sandwiches. We won't have a cooler. Can you give me some quick ideas? We leave on Friday for a night over at my mom's then fly out Saturday morning.
Can you help me out?
BTW I am bringing kids the following ages: 5, 12, 13, 15, 16. The older ones are pretty big eaters.

Freeze several bags of grapes. They double as a snack and a decent "ice pack" to keep anything else, such as sandwiches, cold.

regards

 

[Halbleib1]

FYI...I had a jar of peanut butter taken by security at the Orlando airport this summer. They said its considered liquid and could not go through.

I had the same thing happen at BWI airport the first time we flew to Disney. However if it is already on bread it is allowed through. Just not allowed in a container to go through. Oddly enough though on our way back we were able to bring cheesecake through in Orlando.

 

[Priorityonecb]

I'd like to chime in on the peanut on the plane comment too. A peanut allergy can most certainly be airborne, as was the case with my youngest daughter. Whenever we flew, I was allowed to preboard and clean her area completely to avoid peanut residue and they would make an announcement to not eat any peanut products on that flight. I've only had one incident where someone *demanded they be allowed to eat their jar of peanuts. Once the stewardess told her she was welcome if she'd like to make a mid flight emergency landing in the case that the other passenger stop breathing...she huffed a bit and put it away. Peanut allergies, though annoying to others occasionally, can mean life or death to an allergic child/person.

 

[krcit]

last time I went to Vegas from BWI... my seat mate have hard boiled eggs and toast! I only have junk potato chips, chocolates etc..

what happend if the airlines gives out peanuts and soda ???

That must have smelled yummy.

 

[livndisney]

I'd like to chime in on the peanut on the plane comment too. A peanut allergy can most certainly be airborne, as was the case with my youngest daughter. Whenever we flew, I was allowed to preboard and clean her area completely to avoid peanut residue and they would make an announcement to not eat any peanut products on that flight. I've only had one incident where someone *demanded they be allowed to eat their jar of peanuts. Once the stewardess told her she was welcome if she'd like to make a mid flight emergency landing in the case that the other passenger stop breathing...she huffed a bit and put it away. Peanut allergies, though annoying to others occasionally, can mean life or death to an allergic child/person.

An you of course make sure your seatmate is not going to have an allergic reaction to the wipes you are using right?

I can't tell you the number of times we have run into "I can use whatever wipe I want".

 

[KLAIT]

I was jus thinking about peanut butter. There are a LOT of people who are highly allergic to peanut butter and even the smell can send them into breathing problems and shock. I never thought about this in the past until a friend of my son almost died from the smell of peanut butter in the air. If he would have touched a seat that someone who had sit there previously with peanut butter touched, he could also have breathing problems instantly and go into shock

 

[Hannathy]

I was jus thinking about peanut butter. There are a LOT of people who are highly allergic to peanut butter and even the smell can send them into breathing problems and shock. I never thought about this in the past until a friend of my son almost died from the smell of peanut butter in the air. If he would have touched a seat that someone who had sit there previously with peanut butter touched, he could also have breathing problems instantly and go into shock

Everything I have read (and I tend to believe scientific studies)disproves this there is no protein in the scent. the reaction to the scent of peanut butter is an hysterical one not a physical one. that is why peanut butter is ok. the scent is not going to do anything. yes if they get some on them AND rub, eyes or get it in the nose or mouth yes but not just the scent.

Peanut airborne dust is a problem but again it needs to be right by the person 1 pack an airplane away is not going to do anything.

 

[Hannathy]

Please don't take PB on a flight. My nephew is fatally allergic to peanuts. If you eat PB, touch the bathroom door and then he touches it, he will go into anaphalatic shock within minutes.

He would have to rub it into his eyes, nose or mouth. If he is this sensitive shouldn't the prudent thing to do for his protection be to wear gloves rather than depend on a plane full of strangers who really don't care?

 

[john1928]

If he is this sensitive shouldn't the prudent thing to do for his protection be to wear gloves rather than depend on a plane full of strangers who really don't care?

The most prudent thing to do would probably be to try to find a desensitization study to join .

The ones I've read about in the news started out with folks who would react to tiny (few mg) amounts that could possibly be airborne. However, they had like a 50 fold plus improvement in their threshold levels over the course of a month or two to the point where they could consume something like half a dozen peanuts without having a reaction.

My MIL and my 2 year old both have epi-pens for allergic reactions (not from peanuts though) that have caused caused ER trips for obstructed airways so I'm not unsympathetic to folks that need to deal with this on a daily basis. But if I could prevent the reaction I'd much rather do that than try to isolate my kiddo from the environmental source of the allergen...

 

[williamson_ja]

Is your flight really 7.5 hours or are you taking the time change into account? I usually fly coast to coast NS in 5 hrs, or 4.5 going west to east. If you're really landing at 1:30 your time maybe you can get by with some easy to pack snacks and just eat when you land. If you have a stop-over it's easy to catch a bite then too. Just throwing that possibility out there....

It will be 2:30 our time when we land. I figured that with getting to the airport at 8:00 a.m. to get through security, it's still a long time for kids to go without eating.

 

[mhsjax]

I don't love peanut butter but even if I did, I would never take a chance on potentially killing just so I could have my peanut butter on an 8 hour flight or less.

I know people that have kids with allergies and they don't expect the world to come to a close because of their child, but in an airplane if you did cause a reaction, you are really endangering that persons life and also messing up everyone else's because if that plane has to make an emergency landing, you are really going to have a lot of people ticked off at you for not giving up your peanut better. I wouldn't want to deal with the masses on that one not to mention the more important thing of really hurting someone.

 

[kaytieeldr]

actually - you are wrong.
some people can be so sensitive that the little particles in the air can set them off into an anaphylactic attack.

Respectfully, the little particles would be from peanut dust from fresh peanuts - not from processed peanut butter. While the airline can choose not to serve peanuts on a flight and can ask passengers not to eat peanuts, they can't force a passenger to not eat peanut products.

Equally respectfully, it's the responsibility of the allergic person to take precaution - e.g. not touch surfuces that could be contaminated from that or an earlier flight - much more than the responsibility of a few random passengers.