UC Meal Alternative - Possibilities?

HI Guys,

Firstly, I absolutely love the site! I have been a fan for a few years now and quite often get laughed at by my wife for looking at "a forum to do with planes"! From this I have been labelled by her and now many close friends as PlaneBoy. Possibly the closest I will come to a Playboy .

The irony of this, is that now she would like some information on our scheduled flight with VA. We are due out UC 14th AUG, LGW - MCO and I mistakenly told her the options on the UC menu. While I have no problems with it at all (I'm happy sat at the front! ), there is really nothing on there that she would eat. Add to this that she will be 7 months pregnant, I was wondering the alternatives:

I fully understand that you cannot satisfy everyone's culinary needs, but if they had enough notice could something else be provided? (please don't shoot me for this?)

If so, what are the options?

Go easy on me as this is my first ever post.

Thanks and keep up the good work everyone!


p.s. I promise to write a TR for this trip! I've been threatening for a few years now!

Welcome

The other options would be

+ order a special meal - diabetic, vegan etc BUT you get what you are given - it's not like ordering 'off menu' in a restaurent. There is a list of meals on the VS website.

+ pick up sandwiches / snacks in the terminal or something from the LGW CH. However the cabin crew will not be able to heat up food for you though.

BTW I hope you don't mind me raising it but please check out the VS pages re flying and pregnancy as well.

Welcome planeboy (was that name taken), and some comments below.

there is really nothing on there that she would eat. Add to this that she will be 7 months pregnant, I was wondering the alternatives

I can understand that at 7 months diet is somewhat tricky, but there are no alternatives other than special meals as tonty says.

I fully understand that you cannot satisfy everyone's culinary needs, but if they had enough notice could something else be provided? (please don't shoot me for this?)

No - it's not a restaurant with ingredients lying around waiting to be whipped into something unique, everything is preprepared and what you see listed is what you get.

Really is there nothing? Steak, fish, vegetables, salads, cheese, snacks, fruit, puddings, pasta, vegetarian ... maybe take a look at the Y and PE options too?

p.s. I promise to write a TR for this trip! I've been threatening for a few years now!

We'll look out for that y) .

You can also ask for a PE meal, which I did two weeks ago travelling UC to IAD. The chicken on the way out was very tasty.

gnjb.

[Darren Wheeler]

I'll sound a note of caution about asking for a PE mean in Upper.

Catering loads are very tight and there may not be enough PE meals to cover Upper. To the best of my knowledge, crew will not serve an Upper meal to PE.

I'd suggest that the only way to get something you're guaranteed to like is to take your own packed lunch with you, otherwise it will be a very hit-and-miss affair I'm afraid.

And welcome to the site - looking forward to that TR.

By the way, PlaneBoy is lot better than V-Nerd...