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A shoutout to SAS for its delicious buy-on-board meals sold in economy class (and offered for free in its forward cabin) on short- and mid-haul flights. You can count on a delicious and healthy meal if you are hungry.
After the burger on the flight from London to Copenhagen, I ordered healthier meals for Augustine and me from Copenhagen to Malaga.
Among the choices, you can order a meat (pork or beef), fish, or chicken option, served with sides and crisp crackers.
What particularly impressed me was the kid’s meal. Far from the usual breaded chicken or macaroni and cheese (a nasty, fatty, carb-filled meal) here’s how SAS describes its kids’ meal:
KIDS’ MEAL
A freshly made meal made of chicken with penne pasta and vegetables (carrots and cucumbers) including a juice, crisp bread and a piece of chocolate. The meal has pure, clean flavors adjusted to the needs of our youngest travelers.
Yes! Thank you, SAS! This is what we need more of.
And Augustine loved it…it was the sort of healthy food he is used to eating at home and he ate it all (though oddly said he did not like the Froosh drink…). It cost $10.
I leaned toward ordering beef for me since it tends to come with a beet salad, which I love, but I am trying to limit my red meat consumption and just had the burger on the earlier flight, so I ordered chicken (14 USD).
CHICKEN MEAL
Delicious chicken dish prepared with a Scandinavian touch combined with influences from around the world. Served with locally sourced vegetables and potatoes and/or grains. Coffee and tea are always included.
It was a very nice dish with smoked chicken breast, picked cranberry and potato salad, sea-buckthorn-brined Savoy cabbage, and roasted pumpkin cream. I ate this as we approached Malaga and found it very satisfying.
You can order meals on SAS under “Reserve Meals” when you manage your reservation. These pre-orders can be placed up to 18 hours prior to your flight, which is quite flexible (most other carriers who offer food for sale cut off sales from 24-48 hours prior to departure). You pay in advance.
Well done, SAS. This is the sort of SAS distinctive that makes me more loyal.
I don’t know why US airlines can’t do this.
My thoughts exactly.
Because US airlines are focused on selling the cheapest, lowest quality food for the largest profit.
As they should as public companies. This great country was built on F’ing the consumer at every chance and laughing as they come back saying “Thank you sir, may I have another”.
Face it we are as addicted to the poor food and service as Aaron is to c#cks of all sizes and ethnicities in his orifices.
Aw, the closeted dude who is still obsessed with me, gay people, and gay sex is back. Someone needs a hobby…
This looks awesome but the only reason Augustine liked it is because you and your wife did a great job at home making sure he is used to eat that type of healthy food. The problem with most US families is that they let their kids eat whatever crap they want at home so they will never even look at something like this on a plane. The other day I was at Costco and mentioned to my wife how much processed and unhealthy food they sell there. Her response: “Because that is what people want to buy it.” Sadly, she is correct.
If Costco sucks why were you there?
Just was curious, in the ‘remote possibility’ of IROPS, and one is rebooked, and of course the meal doesn’t follow the pax and is not consumed by the pax, is their a refund ? Or does the pax ultimately ‘eat it’ ( the fee, that is ! ) …
And these meals put to shame the typical hot meal you’ll see on US carriers’ domestic flights.
We Swedes tend to eat healthy meals at home. Our diet is much different, not only of America but yes that of lower Europe too. Matthew … you and Heidi might have heard of one of our weekly customs called Lördagsgodis. Lördagsgodis (English: “Saturday sweets” or “Saturday candy”) is a Swedish tradition of children eating candy or sweets mainly or only on Saturdays. The Swedish custom of lördagsgodis, or Saturday candy, was spurred by the outcomes at Vipeholm, which definitively proved that sugar, particularly between meals, causes tooth decay. The idea behind lördagsgodis is moderation. Moderation is modus operandi in our daily lives.
Flew SAS Plus a year ago from CPH-BCN (Non-rev). They upgraded me, and I got a meal included. Looks very similar to what you purchased, and was easily the best economy food I’ve ever had (mix of flavor vs health vs freshness). I was so shocked, and have since has many good meals is intra Europe J. I truly cannot comprehend how this is impossible in the US.