Raw option for airplane flights?

[Pierre]

When booking a flight, you can specify that you want vegetarian food, kosher food, gluten-free food, or any of several other options. Can we lobby the airlines to include raw food as an option? What would be appropriate raw meals for flights from various countries?

[Sharon in Colorado]

I've seen fruit plate as an option. However don't be surprised it you get some cheese and crackers with it.

[cornvalley]

Would that be 'high' raw then?

Just shoot me....

[Pailani]

Would that be 'high' raw then?

Just shoot me....

LOL!

I'd bring my own food. Even if there was a fruit tray, I wouldn't be surprised if it was treated with chemicals to retain color and keep it looking fresh.

[Dimond]

I definitely would bring my own. Airplane food was never good to begin with. Even if you got them to offer raw options, it probably wouldn't be worth the hassle.

[Sharon in Colorado]

Pierre being that there are so many different types of raw diets, it would be too challenging to try and lobby it, cause you know there's going to be complaints from us raw foodists. You'd have to get ALL the different categories:

Low fat vegan
High fat vegan
Fruitarian
Recipe-arian
Hybrid-free
Nightshade-free
Sproutarian
Ann Wigmore style
Raw meat/dairy

You know heads are gonna roll if you only lock into one style. You'll have some fruit phobic raw eaters freaking out when all they see are bananas and mangos, while the low-fat raw vegans have a fit when they see an elaborately made nut-heavy raw recipe.

I think the easiest category to lobby would be for the UT folks. All the airlines would have to supply is a sterilized cup. :eek:

[Tirza]

LOL!

I'd bring my own food. Even if there was a fruit tray, I wouldn't be surprised if it was treated with chemicals to retain color and keep it looking fresh.

NO KIDDING! We have ordered a raw plate and it was several different little containers with pieces of the same kinds of fruits and some little tomatoes and cuke slices. The cuke slices were WAY far gone. They were mushy and transparent. The tomatoes, soft. The fruit slices weren't totally destroyed, but were not at their prime either.

I am really not interested in airline food even if it is "included". They do their best, but really what CAN they do in those circumstances?!

The last 3 times we went to Israel we used Czech Airlines as they had the cheapest fares (only $700-ish+tx each). By the way, we found them every bit as good as any other airline. Their personnel are very nice. The planes are good. No complaints. The only thing is, it means a stop and change in Prague which is fine as that is a beautiful city. Even the airport is new and really nice. On the way there the stop-over is 13 hours or something. As part of the ticket, they provide a shuttle to take you to a hotel where they provide you with a room and 2 meals included (VERY plain-Jane, but clean and adequate for a rest and shower). You can either crash in the room, or you can arrange tours right from the hotel so there are ways to spend your time.

We received our meal vouchers from the hotel reception and went into the restaurant to pick up our "kosher meal". After awhile the waiter came out with a brown paper bag for each of us. ...It was hilarious... We took them back to our room and made our own lunch out of -- get this -- 2 Tomatoes, 1 Long English Cuke, 2 Apples, 2 Oranges, 1 Banana (each). We laughed and laughed. Talk about the perfect Raw meal, not to mention kosher! On the way back there is only a 3 hour stop so we don't leave the airport.

After the first time doing that, we knew to bring along some nuts, crackers and pâtés. It worked out really well and we felt SO much better after a meal like that. We didn't have so much jet lag either.

So there is my raw food airline story.

[cornvalley]

I tend not to eat anything at airports waiting or on the plane flight. Just clean water is fine thanks. Reason being that it is easier to reset your body clock (didn't know you had a clock in you, did ya?) to the new time zone if you fast until arrival at your final destination and settle in a little bit. This works great on long trips where things can feel totally out of whack on arrival if you've been eating out of your habitual routine.
Fasting breaks the pattern enough to help your body to readjust.

[sport]

I would like to lobby them to allow me to bring my food on board without having it x rayed.
I have been taking all my food on flights for years.
On a transatlantic I have to make sure that all my fruit and veg is gone before I land or else I will have to bin it and then I have to make sure that I have non fruit and veg food for the 2nd leg. Crackers and a dip will do for that.

[Pierre]

I tend not to eat anything at airports waiting or on the plane flight. Just clean water is fine thanks. Reason being that it is easier to reset your body clock (didn't know you had a clock in you, did ya?) to the new time zone if you fast until arrival at your final destination and settle in a little bit.
What if you're going on a 7.3 Mm series of flights (was more like 9 after being redirected because a plane was caught in snow), taking over a day, but going only two hours in time zones? That was my trip to Brazil.

Btw, on the flight back from Brazil I asked for orange juice and got vaguely flavored sugar water. That was inexcusable. Brazil is a major orange producer, and in Brazil you can get fresh raw orange juice with any of various local fruits mixed in, at lots of fruit and smoothie bars. I asked for water later on that flight.

[Sharon in Colorado]

I would like to lobby them to allow me to bring my food on board without having it x rayed.
I have been taking all my food on flights for years.
On a transatlantic I have to make sure that all my fruit and veg is gone before I land or else I will have to bin it and then I have to make sure that I have non fruit and veg food for the 2nd leg. Crackers and a dip will do for that.

Sport if that happened, all the terrorists would be taking up raw food prep. They'd be taking date nut tortes on board with them!

[sport]

Sport if that happened, all the terrorists would be taking up raw food prep. They'd be taking date nut tortes on board with them!
Raw foodists could never be terrorists. We are far too laid back.

[madmel]

Sharon,

LOVE your posts ;)


UT folks - what is that?

mel

[Sharon in Colorado]

UT - urine therapy

Thank you! :)

[sport]

[QUOTE=doubleg]NO KIDDING!
The last 3 times we went to Israel we used Czech Airlines The only thing is, it means a stop and change in Prague which is fine as that is a beautiful city. Even the airport is new and really nice. On the way there the stop-over is 13 hours or something. On the way back there is only a 3 hour stop so we don't leave the airport.
QUOTE]
Upstairs in the airport in Prague they have 2 lounges. You can go in for a small fee and spend the 3 hours on the internet checking up on what is happening on the rawfoodtalk line.
I have done this and some of my posts here have come all the way from Prague.

[berrymarymac]

Eww airline food!!!!!!! It's nasty nasty nasty!!!! And only drink bottled water on flights, never their own (if the airline does that). My mom was a flight attendent and yeah...I've heard everything. I shall save the roach and many many snake stories for later...

[cornvalley]

What if you're going on a 7.3 Mm series of flights (was more like 9 after being redirected because a plane was caught in snow), taking over a day, but going only two hours in time zones? That was my trip to Brazil.

Ha!, Ya got me there, but I'd probably kick my travel agents ass.
I kid..... I kid

[spicyfull]

B. Y. O.....................

[Lay-Lay]

You can't bring water (fear of bombs) onto a plane now, so do you think they would allow fruit or veggies or nuts, etc?

[Pierre]

Upstairs in the airport in Prague they have 2 lounges. You can go in for a small fee and spend the 3 hours on the internet checking up on what is happening on the rawfoodtalk line.
I have done this and some of my posts here have come all the way from Prague.
I did something similar in RJ or SP (I forget which). There's a LAN house in the airport and I sent a message to the hostel saying I'd be late.

There's a site www.airlinemeals.net which has pictures of various special meals. Maybe we should talk with them.

I don't think we need to get every single category. My lunch these days (a wide variety of veggies and some fruit, including avocados) would probably be edible to most raw foodists. I don't think I could fit 640 grams of it in an airfood tray though!

[Spectatrix]

You can't bring water (fear of bombs) onto a plane now, so do you think they would allow fruit or veggies or nuts, etc?
Probably so, until they decide that explosives can be disguised as those things. You can always call the airports ahead of time and find out.

[juliebove]

I never depend on airlines for food, and from what I've heard, most of them no longer serve meals anyway. I've learned the hard way not to specify anything specific in advance. Because that seems to get me food even further away from what I want. Breakfast? Forget about it. I've gotten some raw food on a breakfast but it isn't necessarily fresh. I don't think I've ever had a lunch in flight. I have gotten some kind of prepackaged mini sandwich and cookie on one flight. Dinner usually has a small green salad and the dressing is always on the side. If I eat anything, it's the salad. I don't like salad dressing though, so this works for me. Even when I did try the other food, it was so disgusting I wouldn't have eaten it anyway. I can't really blame them for what they serve though. They have limited time and limited space. So I can see why the food they serve would be prepackaged.

[juliebove]

There's some interesting stuff here:

http://www.airlinemeals.net/