Some of the crew meals at airline #2 were not so yummy, but the ones at my last carrier were actually pretty good (and you can probably safely classify me as a "foodie") for that matter.

You're right, the healthy (or unhealthy or whatever) food you bring on your trip should be of no one else's concern and good for you for not playing into the blatant raping of the traveling public by the airport concessions and their insane prices which have skyrocketed the last five years or so.

I wish I was more motivated to pack some healthy food for my trips but being a single guy that's constantly on the go outside of work I never really do.

My original point was that even at my first airline (a regional) we had a policy of calling in unscheduled "crew breaks" to ops when we needed a break to get food. I'll be damned if any airline is going to run me so ragged as to not take a delay if myself or my crew need nourishment if they're not going to provide some decent crew meals or meals from the aircraft galley (which for us is not an option).

As for rollaboards, I've never know anything else so I'm not old enough to be upset about them but certainly old enough to be upset about the backpacks.