Plane Snacks

Keeping track of my flights’ statuses online but it’s a bit early yet.  I do see that the Vancouver- Toronto flight I’m on tomorrow was nearly an hour delayed today and the Toronto – Halifax flight I’m on tomorrow was over an hour delayed today.  Hopefully it will all be smooth sailing for me!

Since this is Air Canada I’m flying, there are no meals provided on any of my flights.  I’ll be en route for 12 hours and in the air about 10.5.  If you want to buy a meal on the two longer flights, it’s $9 for what I’m sure will be a crappy sandwich.  So, I decided to provide my own food and have come up with an eating plan for myself.  This may sound nuts, but I hate being starving while travelling; it ups my anxiety level several notches and I also worry about my IBS when on the plane.

For breakfast I will just have plain toast.  When I arrive in Van at 10:30am, I’ll have a two-hour lay-over.  I plan on hitting Starbucks for a stiff mocha and then, about an hour before boarding the flight to TO, I’ll hit a sandwich place and have a brunch.

For the plane, I purchased from Shoppers Drug Mart a bag of trail mix and a bag of kettle cooked peanuts (I’d have preferred cashews, but they were over double the price).  I also have three chocolate bars.  From LOGS I purchased a banana.

Dinnertime will be interesting because I only have 50 minutes between flights, and I will need some dinner.  Not wanting to take a sandwich because of refrigeration issues, I decided to purchase a piece of pizza from LOGS to eat for my dinner.  It can sit out at room temperature for a while and will make a nice  supper, I think.  It was $6 and looks pretty good.

Here are my goodies.