Actually, there are a lot of foods that are much better after they've been cooked, then refrigerated. Spaghetti is one of them. Apple pie, to cite another example, is also much better done this way rather than eating straight out of the oven. Even if you reheat it later.

Every job has it pros and cons. There's no such thing as a free lunch (pun intended). For every individual, if the cons of this job outweigh the pros, they will leave the job. For those of us who stay, the pros outweigh the cons. Me? I'm not a foodie. If I could avoid all the hassles and necessities of eating, that would be fine with me. So the food plays no role in my assessment of the job.

 

Cheap a $$

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I'm just saying, I haven't been doing this whole airline thing long but I've only had one person call in sick mid-trip with food poisoning...and they ate out near the hotel..

 

Wow. I thought i had stumbled upon a Homeless scavenging forum.

I am impressed with some of the money saving techniques put forth here (i should probably do more myself) but it is sad a highly trained professional must even consider 5 day old food. But that's a whole other topic.

Protein shakes and power bars.

 

I have an Acorns account that automatically invests my spare change by rounding up my purchases to the nearest dollar and invests in $5 increments. It's a small amount that builds up over time with the opportunity to grow in the stock market.

 

Priorities I suppose. I don't live to eat, I eat to live. Food is just food. I don't remember what food I even ate yesterday. But I do remember that awesome vacation I took because I had the money to. Needlessly spending thousands on crappy airport food every year seems wasteful to me. But like I said earlier, to each their own.

 

Best way for health and money, bring your own food and keep it chilled. I've brought my entire food for 4, sometimes 5 days. Get a fridge every night with a freezer for a good ice pack. Oatmeal, fruits vegetables all fresh none frozen. Low cal wraps for turkey, cheese and lettuce. If you don't get a good cool one night on the food it'll be fine maybe not till the end of the trip but thats happened very few times on me. You can tell if things go a little funky. Never have had food poisoning and always feel great. Done this for nearly a decade. Works great at the majors too when you do make more money and you have more to spend at home. As far as those saying the food is 4/5 days old, I'd eat the same thing at home...left overs cold cuts I buy for the week. Wouldn't change a thing. Add in some self made trail mix with cereal dried fruit; fuels me well. Saving on tips that someone brought up is also a great point.

 

You can turn your sink into a fridge by wrapping your food in plastic trash bags, double wrapped is best, and putting it in the sink then fill the sink with ice. I do that when I don't have a fridge. To keep it cold during the day, fill the same plastic bags with ice and put them on top of your food in your bag.

I liked to bring wraps with rotisserie chicken, lettuce tomato and onions with refrigerated vinaigrette dressing. Healthy and easy to pack. Requires a little time at home before leaving to get it together though. I would also cook bigger meals at home and package them up in Tupperware and freeze them to bring with me on a trip. Forget the ice pack, takes up way too much room.

Invest your per diem into a Roth IRA and after 30 years it'll be worth a couple hundred k. All just because you pack your food.

 

In all seriousness I'll smoke some fish, vacuum pack it and bring some crackers. Been doing this for years for flying, biking, hunting etc.


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Not sure why but this made me laugh WAY harder than it should have