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Replace anger management with stupidity management.
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Quoth fireheart View PostI do have to wonder why people believe that those with dietary requirements get better food on the planes overall.
It really is not difficult to cook low sodium, low fat or low sugar foods. I could do the exact same main components and have the result suitable for all 3 diets. You can cook the chicken in a poaching medium of water, diced carrot, celery and onion with garlic, parsley, thyme and black pepper. You can cook the rice in a vegetable broth of roughly the same ingredients and it will be vegan friendly. You can tart it up with curry powder, or chili powder and still remain low sodium and get a different flavor profile. Neither of them have added fats or sugars. Can't do much with a basic vinaigrette - but if you don't want real dressing because of the fat, just ask for a packet of lemon juice, or a packet of balsamic vinegar, wine vinegar or malt vinegar fer gosh sakes - don't sentence all of us to chemical dressing.EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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Quoth strawbabies View PostWho the hell doesn't like pasta???
Having said that if I copped a pasta dish on a flight, I'd just not eat it and politely return it to the crew when they come to collect the tray (with a polite 'thank you' when handing back the tray), and make a beeline for a fast food outlet when I land, or just politely decline the meal when they offer it.
'No thanks', 'Please', and 'Thank You' are not that hard to say - oh wait, just realised where I amthe end of an era is not the completion of a destiny. Momentum comes when we believe the best for the future, we keep speaking life into the future, and we commit to the future - Brian Houston
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Quoth AccountingDrone View Post<shrug> Diabetic, low sodium and low fat meals are seriously BORING. Last time I flew Lufthansa, the diabetic meal was a naked baked skinless boneless chicken breast, plain white rice [no butter, margarine] plain lettuce with a couple cherry tomatoes and a slice of onion with some fat free all chemical faux vinaigrette dressing, and dessert was a little thing of sugarfree jello. No salt, pepper, dressings, sauces, nothing. Thankfully I always travel with a few of the little salt and pepper packets, some splenda packets, and oddly enough, a couple ducks sauce and soy sauce packets.The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
Now queen of USSR-Land...
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Quoth fireheart View PostSounds like the last hospital meal I had...I downed it readily as I was nil per mouth for about 24 hours prior in case they wanted to do exploratory surgery to determine what the hell was wrong with me (it was nothing major)
It does not take much to put an emergency food salvage kit into ones purse, pack or briefcase - just use the fast food condiment packs and put them into a zippy bag or recycled candy tin.EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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Quoth notalwaysright View PostI think it has to do with people deciding that not eating specific things makes them sound cool. Like people thinking gluten is evil and refusing to eat it because... Because. I know several people who can't eat gluten who would kill for a piece of toast.To right the countless wrongs of our days... We shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise...Oh, what a wonderful world such would be...
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Quoth AccountingDrone View PostDiabetic, low sodium and low fat meals are seriously BORING. Last time I flew Lufthansa, the diabetic meal was a naked baked skinless boneless chicken breast, plain white rice [no butter, margarine]Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth wolfie View PostWhite rice in a diabetic meal? Couldn't they have served something with a lower glycemic index (even brown rice)? As for the plain chicken, I agree with you - a few herbs (fat-free, sodium-free, and beetus-friendly) would significantly improve the taste.
Tonights dinner was shakshuka [simmered tomatoes, onions, garlic, spices and sriracha instead of peppers, with 1 egg per person cracked in to poach] with manti [effectively meatballs wrapped in wonton skin pasta.] Tons of flavor, and other than the nontraditional use of manti vegetarian and reheat friendly.EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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Quoth notalwaysright View PostI think it has to do with people deciding that not eating specific things makes them sound cool. Like people thinking gluten is evil and refusing to eat it because... Because. I know several people who can't eat gluten who would kill for a piece of toast.
At my work, we average around 20-30 children a day. Our allergy breakdown looks like this (not all children are there on the same day and some of these refer to multiple children):
5 are on gluten-free diets. Only one of them is actually coeliac, while another has a wheat allergy. One has a behavioural reactionwhile the other two are on a gluten-free diet because it supposedly helps their behavoural issues (one is autistic, the other has ADHD)
4 are dairy-free: As far as I know, three of them are actually allergic to dairy (or lactose-intolerant), while the fourth is simply dietary.
3 are egg-free: all three have another allergy as well (one is allergic to nearly everything, one is allergic to dairy as well, the other is allergic to nuts, bees and mosquitos and also has a ton of food intolerances)
Around 8-10 are allergic to nuts to varying degrees.
3 cannot wear sunscreen
1 is allergic to tinned fish
1 is "allergic" to chocolate (apparently in small doses, it's OK)
1 has contact dermatitis from grass among other things.
1 is also allergic to sesame among most dietary things. oddly enough, he's NOT allergic to soy.
1 also has a corn allergy, but it's not severe.
The kid with the sesame allergy brings his own food in, we just prep for the others. Sometimes this means substituting food to ensure that EVERYONE gets something.
This of course, means that we'll occasionally get kids who throw fits over...wait for it...RICE CRACKERS. (They're gluten-free so if we don't have the bread availale, they get that. Our kid with the corn allergy/intolerance also gets them when we do nachos)The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
Now queen of USSR-Land...
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Quoth fireheart View PostYou can't toast gluten-free bread?
But over the years she's become intolerant of many of the ingredients that go into gluten-free stuff. The stuff that messes her tummy up the most are tapioca and almond flour. I also know someone who had acid reflux and took antacids for so long that it killed the good bacteria*, and now he can't eat sugar or gluten or uncooked fruit. It's not forever, because the good stuff will grow back, but he's also allergic/intolerant of everything. Milk, nuts, eggs, to list a few.
*please excuse my lack of actual medical knowledge, I just have some general info not specificsReplace anger management with stupidity management.
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Quoth wolfie View PostWhite rice in a diabetic meal? Couldn't they have served something with a lower glycemic index (even brown rice)? As for the plain chicken, I agree with you - a few herbs (fat-free, sodium-free, and beetus-friendly) would significantly improve the taste.
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Quoth ladyjaneinmd View PostYeah, I'm a diabetic in my 20th year, and it seems that the world at large thinks that 'diabetic' food needs to be devoid of anything that makes food worth eating at all.I really miss chocolate in other than dainty portions, I adored the post Halloween candy binges of my youth.
I do have the feeling that if I ever get diagnosed with something fast and terminal, I may check into hospice care with about 10 pounds of really good chocolate, a few pounds of other candy and my insulin, and tell the nurses to push insulin at need and have a good gorge. Hey, if I am terminal, I don't need to worry about the negative impact of a sugar gorge, do I =) I could arrange for friends to bring me all the foods I normally am stingy with and spend my last months pigging out til I explode. I bet I could get to 500 pounds if I try!EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.
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Quoth notalwaysright View PostWell, the person who told me has Celiac, and (to her! I have no experience with this) she doesn't consider gluten-free bread to be actual bread. It's just something to build a sandwich on, in her words. Again, I've never tried gluten-free bread.
My wife gave some of her gluten free bread to a baker friend of ours.
He didn't consider it to be bread either.Be Nicer To Retail Workers 2K18, also known as: stop being an incredibly shitty human to people just doing their job.
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Quoth the lawsmeister View PostSome them are ok, really depends on which brand/flavour you get and they seem to toast up ok.
My wife gave some of her gluten free bread to a baker friend of ours.
He didn't consider it to be bread either.Life: Reality TV for deities. - dalesys
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