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Can I Trust Air Canada

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Can anyone share an experience with the gluten free meals on Air Canada Flights? I will be getting a dinner and a breakfast. I have read other on-line sources that said the meals were either brutal, or contained gluten (like barley salad...duh!). Also that they throw gluten-free and vegan into one meal, so it isn't very satisfying. The info was all from around 2006 though, so I am wondering if anyone has any more recent information to share.

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Tina B Apprentice
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Can anyone share an experience with the gluten free meals on Air Canada Flights? I will be getting a dinner and a breakfast. I have read other on-line sources that said the meals were either brutal, or contained gluten (like barley salad...duh!). Also that they throw gluten-free and vegan into one meal, so it isn't very satisfying. The info was all from around 2006 though, so I am wondering if anyone has any more recent information to share.

I wouldn't trust it. I did it once and they were terrible and then someone told me you can order a fruit plate which is what a lot of people who keep kosher do. The next time i flew on a long flight I brought crackers and snacks and had the fruit plate.

gabby Enthusiast
gabby
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I've had too many experiences where they forgot to make the special meal for me, leaving me with no food. Or thought I had ordered vegetarian or kosher. Again leaving me with no food. Or they plop a wheat-filled bun on your tray next to your food.

You can try to go ahead and order the gluten free meal and see what happens...but also bring your own food along just in case it doesn't work out. This way you are covered.

The Glutenator Contributor
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Oh, sometimes life is just complicated! But thanks!

Mack the Knife Explorer
Mack the Knife
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I am flying Qantas from Australia to Europe at the end of the month. Once I factor in waiting time at the airport, flight time, refuelling in Singapore, collecting baggage, going through customs, and getting the train from Frankfurt to Cologne, it adds up to almost 30 hours in transit. Needless to say I will be taking an awful lot of food with me. I'll take enough to sustain me through the journey there and then enough for a couple of days once I get there in case I can't find anything.

For the flight I'll take a roast vegetable salad or something that is delicious when eaten cold, and probably a couple of gluten-free wraps and sandwiches. Plus snacks of course. Chocolate, biscuits, muesli bars, etc. I'm paranoid about the plane developing a problem and being stranded at an airport somewhere for days. I know it's unlikely but it does happen from time to time.

Besides those, I'm going to take lots of packets of gluten free wraps in my suitcase as they take up almost no space. And probably a tupperware container of muesli and some gluten free museli bars.

I'm also bringing several packets of gluten free lollies. Just in case!

Lesx2 Newbie
Lesx2
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I fly a minimum of once a month and never without an insulated lunch bag with gluten-free food with me. Too much chance of CC if you are even lucky enough to get a true gluten-free meal

Hint. A bag of frozen peas keeps things colder longer and can go through security

Mango04 Enthusiast
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always, always bring your own food when you fly! :)

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Jaxita Newbie
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Hint. A bag of frozen peas keeps things colder longer and can go through security

This is a great idea, thank you for sharing it! I'll be flying cross-country next month (over both breakfast and lunchtimes, & because of the diabetes medicine I take, I can't just not eat along the way), & this will come in SO handy! :D

Lesx2 Newbie
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This is a great idea, thank you for sharing it! I'll be flying cross-country next month (over both breakfast and lunchtimes, & because of the diabetes medicine I take, I can't just not eat along the way), & this will come in SO handy! :D

You are welcome. It also helps to freeze as much as you can. I usually take a sandwich (easy to eat on plane), fruit slices, and some granola type bars. --And freeze all the night before I leave. The insulated lunch bags work well and I have never had any trouble getting through security. As you know, you can't take liquids and I have found out liquids also means yogurt, pudding, applsauce etc

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