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Whatever all that code means...
I'm using nutrisystem at Flight saftey this time around for the 17 day class. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm sick of the restaurant weight gain and wallet drain.
 
illeagle said:
Whatever all that code means...
I'm using nutrisystem at Flight saftey this time around for the 17 day class. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm sick of the restaurant weight gain and wallet drain.
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How are going to pack all that food? You have to keep it cold don't you? I was thinking about the same thing.
 
I have been thinking about doing that myself but no way to keep it cold on a four day or no way to warm it up. No mirowave on the RJ. I too am getting sick of restraunt food and an expanding waistline.
 
Back in my regional hub and spoke days I used to carry almost a trip's worth of home-cooked food in a cooler, pre-cooked and pre-frozen, and store it in crew room freezers and fridges, heating them during the turns at base. With some cooler packs I could carry enough in a smaller cooler for the occasional overnight. Nowadays I live fairly high on the hog with NJA crew meals (not perfect ... I just mix and match what I want and give away or trash the stuff I don't. Room for improvement, but it's day to night vs airline "food court" life.
 
I usually go through a 7 day tour without having to buy a single meal. Between the free hotel breakfasts and/or the 3 meals we are catered as we work our 12-14 hours days on the XL at netjets, almost none of my per diem goes towards food. The codes in the first response refers to the 7 options you have at each meal at netjets, some of which have options like the type of bread on your sandwich or type of dressing on your cobb salad (hence the a,b, or c). I don't know anyone that likes all 21 options, but you have a pretty wide variety and can generally eat pretty healthy if that's what you want to do.
 
WrknStff said:
Between the free hotel breakfasts and/or the 3 meals we are catered as we work our 12-14 hours days on the XL at netjets
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Oh boo-hoo-hoo!

I do 14 hours on 1 leg, and still have 45 minutes to go until we land.
 
Day one is sandwiches, fresh cut vegetables, fresh fruit. The rest of a trip will be Cliff Bars for breakfast (if no hotel freebie), tuna or chicken (no drain packs), tortillas, crackers, canned fruit, then usually the evening meal somewhere other than the airport (except Subway). Low sugar, low sodium, moderate carbs, high protien.
Five or six small meals a day works best for me and i've gained zero pounds in 2 1/2 of airline flying.
 
Oh boo-hoo-hoo!

I do 14 hours on 1 leg, and still have 45 minutes to go until we land.

Poor wolfie !! .. I told you that was not a big airplane hehe.
 
At Flex we are taught how to scratch and dig for herbs and roots. Which plants are edible,and how to trap rabbits and squirrrels. Oh Yeah we can spear fish too.
 
DO-82 driver said:
Just think of the OT he must be getting for doing that...... ooops....sorry....they don't get OT for doing that. Never mind.
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True, but my base salary is only about $45,000 more than your FO's make. So how long does it take to make that on overtime??

Yeah... thats what I thought
 
I just order a pizza each night to fulfill my nutritional requirements (it's true just ask Guitar Guy). Be sure to wash it down with lots of vitamin Beer. I'll diet when i'm dead.
 
illeagle said:
Whatever all that code means...
I'm using nutrisystem at Flight saftey this time around for the 17 day class. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm sick of the restaurant weight gain and wallet drain.
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Man the soup at FSI ICT is the BEST! Can't wait till recurrent!!
 
I bring a bunch of the granola bars to use between meals and usually eat only half of the catering so with this I have started to burn off the weight gain after starting the job.
 
Twotter76 said:
I just order a pizza each night to fulfill my nutritional requirements (it's true just ask Guitar Guy). Be sure to wash it down with lots of vitamin Beer. I'll diet when i'm dead.
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I will attest to that. I think Twotter76 knows the phone numbers to pizza joints that deliver in all 50 states and Canada, too.
 
I'll be curious to see how you guys like Nutrisystem food. A lot of blogs on the web say it tastes absolutely horrible, thus the weight loss!

Hung
 
I have actually lost weight since I started at the airlines. Its not because of my crap pay either at my regional airline. I bring crackers, trail mix, fruit, couple cans of slim fast, bags of tuna. I like doing 2 day trips because I can pack for day one, then day two I can eat dinner at home. I refuse to eat fast food or most of that junk at the airport.
 
bigbird said:
I like doing 2 day trips because I can pack for day one, then day two I can eat dinner at home. I refuse to eat fast food or most of that junk at the airport.
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Concur. The best thing that's happened to me professionally is being able to hold day trips. There are several reasons for that, but easily avoiding airport food is near the top of the list.
 
At Mesa, we are taught to stun a pidgeon with our flight cases and cook it on our travel iron.


(blatantly stolen from Scott Adams)
 

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