The Joys of Plane Food!

So our journey has now officially begun! You would think that after 9 months of anticipation I would have realised that I am actually going to London for an unknown period of time where I will have no steady income, no permanent address with limited family & friends to rely on, not to mention everything else that comes along with it.  Apparently that is not the case! After approximately 20 hours of travelling, I am sitting on my second plane and still feel like next week I will be having my weekly Wednesday night dinner ticking another location off ‘the list’ of places to eat in Ballarat.  This could be a whole other blog in itself, but for those of you that have no clue what I am referring to, me and my besties have a list of restaurants/cafes in Ballarat and each week we trial the different cuisine the city has to offer in an attempt to eat at every possible venue.

Well let me tell you that at this very moment I am kinda wishing that it was Wednesday night and that I was about to go out for dinner because I am officially hungry!  I was sitting here thinking about when the oh so lovely flight attendant will bring me my next snack and decided perhaps it was a good idea to start my first blog about the food we have already consumed. 

In departing the country I thought what better way to bid farewell than with a delicious parma from PJ O’Briens at the airport.  I must admit I was extremely disappointed with the lack of salad dressing as I am a little bit of a salad lover, so the green leaf and red onion that got served up put a dampener on my meal. Now I was in no state to take pictures of this, mainly because the thought never crossed my mind as I was too occupied with the gifts that were being provided to me over the dinner table.  The besties mentioned in ‘the list’ challenge came up with a brilliant idea to each give me a Pandora charm that represents themselves.   Each individual and hilarious in their own right, but special mention goes to Jacob who provided me with a camera charm, not because he knows I like taking pictures, but because he likes to be the centre of attention and be in pictures.

After smashing down a parma it was time to board our 10:10pm flight to Abu Dhabi and be served a second dinner at approx midnight.  I’m the kinda girl that thinks chicken is always a safe option, you can’t really over cook or screw up chicken.  Apparently I was yet again wrong.  Dinner for me was chicken stirfry with vegies and hokkien noodles.  Lets just say for someone that normally avoids noodles late at night, this was the only thing that got eaten!  The best part of this meal was easily the savoy biscuits and tasty cheese, oh and the warm bread roll!

Picture taken with iphone

After about 6 hours of on and off napping, it was breaky time! I woke up feeling pretty ordinary so my travel buddy taste tested our scrambled eggs, chicken sausage, odd potato things and grilled tomato.  The look on her face was enough, but when combined with the words “don’t bother”, I stuck to the reliable bread roll and jam with some vanilla yoghurt.

After a 2 hour stopover in Abu Dhabi we boarded a second plane for the trip to London at 8:30am local time, 2:30pm Aus time.  By this stage I was over my little ill patch and had moved on to feeling hungry. My stomach was however distracted slightly with what was possibly the most exciting news for the trip so far, we had managed to score four seats between the two of us, hello stretching room!  This and the recent pang of hunger made me feel much more chipper when deciding on my second breakfast for the day. I opted for the frittata and this is by far the best decision I have made all trip!  For someone that does not like egg, I smashed down this ‘pepper’ frittata, which I later worked out was capsicum, and whats best described as potato wedges.

This has bought us to now, where we are currently flying over the Black Sea and I have no idea what local time is, but according to my stomach 6:30pm Aus time is food time!  

Time for me to sign off and waste another hour with some god awful movie hoping that this Cafe Service with savoury pastries is not far away!