Gluten Free Meals on United Airlines...A Valiant Effort But a Few Lapses
April 27, 2011
We just returned from a week in Paris with our kids over Spring Break. I'll be posting a lot more over the next week or two regarding our challenges dining gluten-free IN Paris, but for now...let me first cover our first experience out of the (airport) gate. Shortly after taking off from Dulles International Airport on a red-eye bound for Paris, we were served dinner. I'd called to request a gluten-free meal for our son Ryan months before the trip -- and then called to confirm it in the week before we left. Sure enough, they delivered it right to our seats. Sigh of relief...not that we weren't prepared with bags and bags of snacks, just in case, but it was nice for him to have a "real" meal. And it looked pretty good, too -- a chicken breast with a light sauce and wild rice and broccoli. Pretty much all of Ryan's favorite things. He seemed to enjoy it enough, and if it was half as good as our "regular" chicken entrees, I'm impressed, because my own chicken entree (similar but not quite the same chicken...and served with pasta and green beans instead) was one of the better airline... Read more →