Airplane food ideas

For shorter flights I tend to grab a Subway at the airport and take it on with me.

For that kind of situation, I tend to pick up a GoPicnic. It's a pre-packed snack meal that contains stuff like crackers and turkey slices or hummus, nuts, trail mix, a little piece of chocolate--essentially they're Lunchables for health-conscious adults. They often sell them at airports, but it's much more economical to buy at the grocery store. Usual price is about $4 each at Target, maybe $5 elsewhere, but they're sometimes on sale for $3-3.50. No refrigeration necessary.

Sure, you could put together something similar for yourself for cheaper, but when I'm setting off on a trip I'll gladly pay $3-4 to have one less thing to worry about.

If you haven't seen them, here's the website: http://www.gopicnic.com/

I wouldn't bother. Eat a normal breakfast before you leave, and don't stress the flight hunger. If you think you're going to be really hungry mid-flight, grab a couple bananas or a protein bar at the airport because they sell those everywhere. I wouldn't recommend eating more than a mid-morning snack because of flight indigestion. A five hour flight isn't very long. Have a lunch when you land. It'll be noonish there anyway. Better to be hungry for a big lunch than have airplane indigestion because of eating during a flight.

I've flown around the world more times than I can count (12+ hour flights), WITH KIDS, and packing food from home for a flight isn't worth it. You have to make up food, then pack it, then wriggle yourself around in your tiny seat to get to it, then you have the trash from it to deal with that the flight attendants won't pick up for about an hour (unless you eat it immediately, which defeats the purpose of packing food for the flight). Or, you spend all that time making it, and then leave it sitting on the kitchen counter and come home to rotting food. Even when I fly with the kids, who are really young, I pack a ziplock bag of goldfish crackers that almost never get eaten or get crushed all over the floor because they fall asleep 30 minutes into the flight.

OMG you're going to starve!

That's a pretty short flight so I'd probably just bring an apple with some nut butter, a sandwich, and/or baby carrots. Don't forget that you can't bring liquids through security so I'd buy a large bottle of water in the airport to keep you hydrated.

Bring apples, hard boiled eggs, peanut butter sandwich, veggies, things that are easy to pack but fill you up.

Careful with the peanut butter sandwich, a number of flights I've been on lately have had instructions from the attendants not to open or consume anything with peanuts as there was a person with severe allergies on board and it was enough for the particles to get into the recycled air system! I don't take anything with peanuts on flights anymore.

Yep! Out of commone sense and respect for other people only eat peanut butter at home!