Food expenses

Canned sardines (in water), canned salmon, canned tuna, p-butter sandwiches, dried fruit, home-made cookies, high-cocoa-content chocolate, re-filled bottles of water with a squeeze of lemon, bottle of water with protein powder and a teaspoon of freeze-dried coffee.
Your body is an engine, feed it well and revel in the performance.
 
and the hordes of poop from the fiber and the nasty breath from the canned fish! :)
 
Snuggle said:
So I noticed I was spending a significant amount of money on crappy airport food and have been searching around for food I can carry with me on a trip . A lot of microwaveable food is high in sodium, but I recently found this stuff (http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/tastybite/home.d2w/report ) which seemed pretty healthy. As long as you are into asian vegetarian food it's a pretty good way to go. I did the math and I end up saving around $130 per month. I pack approximately 5 meals for a 4 day trip. I also pack a microwaveable container as they don't come with one.

I'm curious what everyone else brings with them to save some money and eat a little better.

Edit: If you end up buying them in bulk like I do, you get free shipping over $65.
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Hey Snuggle, It's me John, the catering guy. I'm doing catering now for Continental mainline. They switched me over from colgan and express jet which sucks. Anyway I think it sucks that Colgan only gets peanuts and no crew meals I think that's a real let down. But anyway I think you would get tired of eating those boring sandwiches on your trips lol
 
jspeed87 said:
Hey Snuggle, It's me John, the catering guy. I'm doing catering now for Continental mainline. They switched me over from colgan and express jet which sucks. Anyway I think it sucks that Colgan only gets peanuts and no crew meals I think that's a real let down. But anyway I think you would get tired of eating those boring sandwiches on your trips lol
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4 leftover first class meals to gate C87 please, it's a long walk to the crew room :)
 
I'll come at this from a different angle.

There have been times where I've been hiking the Appalachian trail -- for real, unlike some people :cool: -- and I didn't have access to food. Nor did I want to bring in things that I would have to cook, since that meant cleaning up the mess.

I took some Zone bars, bananas, apples, and bagels. They were easy to put in my pack and I didn't have to worry about them going bad.

I figure you can easily pack these things in your luggage. And you may even be able to take a few bananas and apples from the hotel in the morning to replenish your supply.
 
jspeed87 said:
I hate gate 87. It's so hard to find especially at night. lol
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I forget where all the gates are if they're not the 101-115 range! Its like a different time warp.

Oh, I remember the days when our first flight into IAD ALWAYS parked at A2F, then the last flight of the eve ALWAYS departed from A6D.

And breakfast sandwiches at COSI.
 
Snuggle said:
So I noticed I was spending a significant amount of money on crappy airport food and have been searching around for food I can carry with me on a trip . A lot of microwaveable food is high in sodium, but I recently found this stuff (http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/tastybite/home.d2w/report ) which seemed pretty healthy. As long as you are into asian vegetarian food it's a pretty good way to go. I did the math and I end up saving around $130 per month. I pack approximately 5 meals for a 4 day trip. I also pack a microwaveable container as they don't come with one.

I'm curious what everyone else brings with them to save some money and eat a little better.

Edit: If you end up buying them in bulk like I do, you get free shipping over $65.
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Right on man. I used to bring Tasty Bite with me. It's tasty, biteable, and microwaveable. Anyways, you guys oughta try it sometime. It's pretty good.:)
 
there is a lunch bag you can get from ebags.com that fits on top of the rollerboard. What John did to keep food cold/fresh was use one of the blue ice bags and fill it up in the morning at the hotel and in the evening at the next one. It worked pretty well to keep everything for the 4-5 days he was gone.
 
TheShortOne said:
there is a lunch bag you can get from ebags.com that fits on top of the rollerboard. What John did to keep food cold/fresh was use one of the blue ice bags and fill it up in the morning at the hotel and in the evening at the next one. It worked pretty well to keep everything for the 4-5 days he was gone.
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The Crew Cooler from eBags:

http://www.ebags.com/ebags_professional_series/crew_cooler/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=17719

Similar cooler from Purdy Neat Stuff:

http://www.stopoverstore.com/product/detail.cfm/pnid/1/pnid2/25/nid/789/pid/1876

I replaced the ice twice a day (easy to do) and never had anything spoil on me.
 
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