[nickydwuk]

I have just booked our flights with SA :clap and have been given the option of choosing our meals. By default we have all been allocated 'standard meals'. However I can't seem to find any description of what these 'standard meals' consist of. My two boys are very fussy eaters. I would appreciate it if anyone who has flown SA could enlighten me. :yes

[Belmont Babes]

We have booked with SA too. Not told anything about meals. When are you flying? PM if you prefer

[Tia Maria]

Its funny I can't remember what was in the adult meals - the usual airline cr*p with a roll. Although I think the oriental choices were marginally better.

I do recall the kids meals. One was fish fingers, chips & peas - microwave quality, one was lasagne, one was omlette and one was breakfast stuff. All came with various chocolate treats, sometimes milkshake, sometimes cake. And kids meals get served first.

If you've got fussy children then the safest option is to bring a big picnic, that way you know they will always have something if they don't like the meals. In theory my son should have liked the kids meals but the smell of the adult meals made him feel sick and we spent most of the mealtime at the back of the plane! Also they were asleep for a couple of the meals as well so it was good to have a bag of sandwiches and fruit as back up.

There are lots of places to eat at Changi or places to buy stuff to stock up for the next leg of the journey.

Cheers

Tia

[catt]

but its limited to meat or fish and like all airline meals its not that brilliant. You can order vegetarian which a number of people did on our flights. (forget the oriental meals......tried one and not good at all) Would suggest you take sandwiches for the kids as a filler if you can for the first leg but if its the night flight you will all get some sleep after they serve up dinner. They do wake you up for breakfast unless you tell them not to. You get 2 meals on the first leg to singapore and then another 2 on the flight to Auckland. If your going straight through you only have a 2 hour stop over in Singapore but enough time to grab something to eat, the food is not that cheap but its better than the plane..............thats what we found anyway. Just as a matter of interest are you heading out on the 10.05 flight from Healthrow?

Glad you got sorted out on your flights though another little step out of the way :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana :raebanana

[mgbridges]

We flew Singapore Airlines back in August '07 with a 5.5 yr old very fussy eater and he hardly ate anything despite us ordering a 'kids' meal. The one meal that sticks in my memory was meatballs in a tomato sauce with spaghetti, can't remember what else he got offered but I know he didn't eat much of it.

We also ordered low-carb meals for me (I was on a diet at the time) and have to say I think the first one wasn't low-carb but something else, it was incredibly bland! The 2nd main meal was marginally better but I tended to end up eating whatever our son got offered! :laugh

If I'd known I could have taken food for him I would have done so although we flew out lateish in the evening from LHR and he slept for most of the first flight. We got him a Macdonalds at Singapore airport where we had approx. 5 hours to wait and that helped. As an aside if you are flying straight through via Singapore I can't recommend the facilities at the Transit Lounge highly enough - well worth the small amount of money.

The main thing I wanted to do was ensure that he drank plenty so he didn't get dehydrated and luckily that wasn't a problem as the flight crew were excellent at coming round regularly with soft drinks.

If you do order special meals you will get given them first. This can be a bit of a problem when your child is sat there with a tray of food in front of them which they have finished with and they have to wait until the rest of the plane is fed before the trays are cleared away.

Sorry to ramble, good luck with the flights. We thought Singapore were great with our son so hopefully it will be a positive experience for you too.

Anneliese

[Andy-Dee]

Our daughter would like to live on Singapore Airlines, she got kiddie friendly meals, with loads of treats and then they came round with ice cream, then fruit, then crisps. Water and drinks are plentiful - so unless yours are really fussy eaters I wouldn't worry.

Changi is fab, so stock up there if you need to.

[peebles16]

Kids meals were okay on Air NZ (not sure about Singapore) but have to say we did have to scan trays and remove sugar filled stuff. Seemed to be a lot of cakes and chocolate stuff which on a long haul fligt you won't your kids to sleep on not good!?! My 6 year old was great and slept reasonably well but 3 year old spied chocolate cake, scoffed it and was awake for the whole second leg from Hong Kong - nightmare for knackered parents!

Best of luck
Karenx

[Tia Maria]

Kids meals were okay on Air NZ (not sure about Singapore) but have to say we did have to scan trays and remove sugar filled stuff. Seemed to be a lot of cakes and chocolate stuff which on a long haul fligt you won't your kids to sleep on not good!?! My 6 year old was great and slept reasonably well but 3 year old spied chocolate cake, scoffed it and was awake for the whole second leg from Hong Kong - nightmare for knackered parents!

Best of luck
Karenx

I remember one meal came with 2 boxes of chocolate balls, 1 box of chocolate dippers, 1 chocolate cake and a chocolate milkshake. They looked quite surprised when I asked if they had any fruit! :laugh

Cheers

Tia

[buzztalks]

Leave the curried perch well alone......
Played havoc with me for about 3 days after.

[sizzlingbadger]

Must be the only one impressed with SA food :laugh

Good choice and managed to choose really good meals every time, liked the idea of noodles for breakfast, not something you have every day :)

Not sure what they have in the way of kids meals as I was on my own last time I flew. When we emigrated our three slept through nearly all the meals, think they were awake for one of them on Air NZ. Certainly no sweet things although it was junk food which they thought was great as they don't normally have that :)

[nickydwuk]

My boys are 13 & 16 but unless it is roast potatoes or chips they won't eat it. The booking states 'standard meals' or you can choose between oriental, kids (up to age 11), religious, vegetarian, dietry meals. Just wanted to know if it was worth choosing one of the 'special' meals or just going with the 'standard' meals.

[Carey]

I ordered high fibre meal and got much nicer puds ie all fruit rather than sugar laden stuff the others got. Also got served first! This was Air NZ

[Croft]

Weird how some are very fussy about what they eat and others are not - for instance my wife dislikes dairy items (stuff like cream really upsets her stomach) and tends to avoid it. If she can't identify what kind of meat it is either, she won't eat it (causes problems when we used to visit the parents in Spain!!). It's also a bit of an inconvenience as I usually have to order something she's willing to eat in case she doesn't like what she's ordered. I consider her to be a fussy eater.

I, meanwhile, will eat anything. Half cooked, dripping in fat, whatever. Only once have a ever balked, and that was some French dish comprising various cuts of meat and offal in a gelatin block. My parents always put it down to that fact we were constantly moving all over the world when I was young, and they didn't have much money. Whatever was placed in front of me I had to eat as there was nothing else. I put it down to the fact that I was a growing child - 6'4" now!

[Caroline and Dave]

Its funny I can't remember what was in the adult meals - the usual airline cr*p with a roll. Although I think the oriental choices were marginally better.

Tia

When I flew back to the UK 4 weeks ago with Singapore, I sat with a chinese couple who had ordered the oriental food. Well it was the most awful stuff you could ever want and they refused to eat it and ended up eating the same as me which I thought was very good as airline meals go.(Ever flown and eaten BA's food? Yuk) The thing was the hostess said it was not up to their usual standard as it was prepared in Auckland and not Singapore :laugh

Dave and Caroline

[Moorf Junior]

Must be the only one impressed with SA food :laugh

Good choice and managed to choose really good meals every time, liked the idea of noodles for breakfast, not something you have every day :)


Here! Here! I LOVED the food :cheers

[Perksy]

I really liked the food but then I'm a bit of foodie generally and from what I remember from when we flew in November it may not suit the fussy eater; at least one of the two options is a potentially spicy and oriental option.