Your tips for avoiding airport food prices? Where do you eat?

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Soon we’re taking a four hour flight with our three year-old. It’s easyJet so the on-board food is crap: greasy and horrible and really don’t want to give them money. But there again airport food is also super expensive. Do you have any hacks that I’m not thinking of? I was thinking of sandwiches, but I imagine they’d just go soggy and not so fresh between leaving the house and the long way to the airport? Our flight is at 3.30 p.m. so we’re hoping to be there around 1.30 p.m.

We take rolls with fillings that tend not to get soggy. Such as cheese onion,also packed lunch box for children grandchildren ,we put in salad wraps ,favourite snack , apple fruit , sweets their favorite ones , then buy water fruit drinks in departure lounge to take on board, if this helps with ideas. As EasyJet food is just horrible, and food is double the cost in the airport.

Yes, but if you have to give them up it’s not a big loss. It’s yogurt. I’ve done it probably thirty times without issue so it’s worth the risk of £2.50 to feed an anaphylactic child.

I just eat at the airport. Breakfast, lunch, coffee or whatever. If I’m going on holiday then I’ll budget for that too. It kind ruins my bougie holiday vibes if I’m turning up with a bag of curled up cheese and pickle sandwiches. 😄

This!
Are those posters with their curled up sandwiches and the ones delaying the security queues while their frozen yoghurts (😯) are investigated going to be the same with meals on the holiday? What a miserable existence!

Holiday meals are nice, airports are crap and expensive.

Cold pizza , nuggets, cocktail sausages, typical kiddie party food type bits. Along with crisps, fruit and whatever else!

Well any sandwich I make is going to be far more appetising than the tasteless fridge cold days old disappointments sold for ridiculous money at airports.

However if I want a drink on the plane that is more interesting than water, I might as well get a Boots meal deal for a quid or two more and if I get a nicer sandwich and leave it to warm up for a couple of hours, it's acceptable to eat. But I wouldn't pay the best part of £10 before snacks and drinks for a cheese or ham baguette that I can make at home in no time at all.

If I'm going to have time and want a meal or a coffee and there's something I will enjoy, I will buy it. DP and I have a bit of a tradition of having brunch from Giraffe at Malaga airport and while it's not the cheapest, it's not bad for what you get.

However, I really did resent the time we ended up paying about £50 for some nasty burger and a pint each at the Wetherspoons type pub at Manchester Airport because they didn't have either of my first two choices so I pretty much had to accept whatever crap they had leftover or go hungry on a near 5 hour flight.

I always take sandwiches, in a little cool bag, and crisps, cereal bars/flapjacks or biscuits. Empty water bottles to fill up post-security and an empty flask to fill up with tea. And always some sweets to keep the kids happy and distracted when they start to get fed up.

I wasn’t going on holiday. I was going back and forwards to Australia which is twenty six hours.

The person who I was answering is also moving internationally.

Both our children are anaphylactic to nuts. Which admittedly is a miserable existence but I still needed to endeavour to keep her alive.