Low Carb meal

I'd like to see a Low carb meal as an option onboard flights. We've got low everything else. I suppose for now I'll need to stick to resisting the carbs already on the plate when I'm not interested in eating them.

I'd like cajun chicken salad or mozzerella salad without carbs thrown in there for no reason whatsoever.

Certainly in UC... there should be the option.

Carbs are the root of all evil in my book. The refined ones anyway. [:(]

[HighFlyer]

I like carbs! Please dont give the bean counters another idea for reducing cost and weight onboard by removing those heavy potato items! [:D]

I thought you could get a low carb meal at a SPML? Although, it is really a lifestyle choice as opposed to a dietary requirement and SPML's cost airlines a small fortune. I believe if you asked for a main meal without the potatoes the crew would try and accomodate you as best as they can (obviously dependant on how the food is prepared when they get it). I have asked for offending items to be removed from onboard meals before with no issue.

Thanks,
Sarah

Originally posted by HighFlyer
Although, it is really a lifestyle choice as opposed to a dietary requirement and SPML's cost airlines a small fortune.

Well, not exactly. Imagine you have diabetes and you must count your carbs. Further, imagine you are insulin-dependent and you really have to know how many carbs you have on your plate so you can estimate your insulin. Make a mistake and someone might be diverting the plane, at at least $100k a pop.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to provide the SPML's? You'd think so, but it's difficult at best. I can't remember how many times one of mine wasn't loaded, or was the wrong meal, or the 'request was lost/didn't exist/fill in your excuse'. At least none of the mistakes happened on VS.

So the answer is ordering a diabetic meal, you say? Forget that! Most diabetic meals have hidden carbs, and they do not come with dietary information. I can't count how many times I saw my father served big glasses of orange juice, huge rolls with sugar and/or honey in them, or full-sugar sodas because someone made a mistake (or the caterers thought they were providing a 'diabetic' meal - in their dreams)...

I'd like low-carb meals myself, and I don't take insulin. Even more, I'd like the nutritional information so I can make informed choices about what's on my plate. Failing that (98% of the time I travel), I just eat what I brought along. I know the carb/sugar/salt content of it. The mystery food on your plate has no info attached.

Why can't airlines provide nutritional info on any meal served, you ask? After all, the caterers know the contents of their meals and could easily figure out the totals. But they won't divulge their proprietary recipes. They're given the same waiver as non-fast-food restaurants and don't have to divulge anything nutritional - even the ingredient list - in any way. Since the meals are supposedly approved by dietitians and are supposedly 'healthy,' why not share it? Is it the true fact that the salt and/or sugar content would give any cardiologist/diabetologist a stroke upon reading it?

It kind of rubs the wrong way to shell out for a First/Upper/Business class seat and have to provide my own amenities (for a while on VS), food (on most airlines), and even water and (usually) diet sodas (every US flight for sure). [n]

I think I spend more in airports for water/soda airside than I do on the tix I'm buying! [V][n]

Here's another vote for low-carb meals, and nutritional disclosure [y]

Count me as another individual desirous of full nutritional disclosure on all airline meals -- even if it's online, available for me to consult at my leisure before the flight. My fear, beyond the caloric and carbohydrate metrics, is mostly the sodium levels in these high altitude offerings. One might be as a deer, tonguing the salt lick left by the gameskeeper, given their salt content.

Originally posted by HighFlyerI like ... those heavy potato items!

As for the thought of Her Grace, majestically dissevering her solanum tuberosum with sterling Asprey cutlery; well, it is things such as this that rescue us from mere animalhood. There is a reason some people are among the great and good, and I put to you that how even Their Graces slice Their food presents Them as examples to us all.

GJ

Another vote for Low-carb meals!

How can you expect pax in UC to have as their only meal choice, a miserable plate of cheese?

[Darren Wheeler]

Originally posted by GrinningJackanapes
Count me as another individual desirous of full nutritional disclosure on all airline meals -- even if it's online, available for me to consult at my leisure before the flight. My fear, beyond the caloric and carbohydrate metrics, is mostly the sodium levels in these high altitude offerings. One might be as a deer, tonguing the salt lick left by the gameskeeper, given their salt content.

Actually, a very interesting point Just how much salt goes into a meal? Given that the Y meals are not far off a supermarket ready-meal, the content must be very high.

Has anyone ever seen a breakdown of contents like the traffic light system used in supermarkets?

[mitchja]

The PE menus do state the number of calories per meal but dont mention actual ingredients. The J menus dont seem to mention anything at all.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that there is a list giving all the food ingredients & energy values etc for each meal type on all flights, although I think you have to ask to see it [:?]

Regards