One only has to look at the long list of chemical ingredients on the lid to see that crew food is not very healthy.
Your own food made daily and stored in a tupperware style box with the four lid locks, won't go off in a day.
I fill an appropriately sized one of those, depending on where I am going, with salad, olives, peppers, mushrooms etc, (chopped up so I can eat it with just a fork, which is easier on the flight deck), and I often put frozen prawns in. I put the tupperware box into a small insulated bag with a couple of apples or oranges. Using kitchen scissors to do the chopping up makes it all very quick and easy. The frozen prawns keep the salad contents chilled and by the time I eat it the prawns have defrosted. I make it up the night before and keep it in the fridge overnight, which works very well.
Or you could make a big pot of something like pasta or curry at the beginning of your week and divide it into a number of heatable containers and stick them in your freezer. Take one or two of your frozen meal(s) to work each day and ask the crew to put them in an oven for you. Again, they will defrost during the day, but will be safe as long as you keep them somewhere cool and away from sunlight.
By the way, I used to put olive oil on my salads, but this can leak past the box seal, causing a mess in the flight bag.
Last edited by Uplinker; 15th Feb 2017 at 13:06.