Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
I'd rather bring my own food than eat cheap crap on the road. My wife has specific dietary needs and she's a good cook so everything she makes for me to take tastes better and is healthier than 95% of the crap available at the airport or near the hotel. Some guys don't like the hassle of packing their own food though and you do have to get creative if your hotel room doesn't have a refrigerator so to each their own. I've had food poisoning once already in the past year and before coming to the airlines I hadn't had real deal food poisoning on almost a decade. It isn't a matter of if but when.
Ya. Eating food that is frozen/thawed/frozen/thawed is a recipe for food poisoning. Some hotels do not have refrigerators available. Others only have a "community" refrigerator with 2 week old pizza left in them.
I would rather spend the extra few bucks a week and eat like a civilized human rather than spending 2 days puking my guts out every couple of months.
It is not worth the hassle to me to even consider bringing 4 days worth of food. I think that it is unsafe and I do not want to screw my crew over by getting sick at an outstation and delaying them getting home.
If you delay me on day 4 because you have been eating bacteria riddled food for 4 days and are now sick, I will drag you into the parking lot and kick you in the taint.