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Good luck with your trip! I hope you have a wonderful time.

I know a month of food seems absolutely daunting. It is very easy to bring enough food with you on the plane. I would seriously reccomend that. And if you are worried about the carry on limit, most airlines allow unlimited "medical" bagagge in addition to the normal limits. Check with your airline to see if they require a letter from a doctor or anything. You could go ahead and just pick a "special dietary meal" to order and see if there are any parts you could eat. Often, the parts other than the main dish are individually wrapped, so you could check the ingredients to see if you eat any of the parts. Check with your airline, most post online their definition of each special meal type. For example: American Airlines Special Meals . But, you never really know what the meal will be, so I'd take enough snacks to tide you over. Luna Bars can replace meals in a pinch. Pretzels, Homemade Chex Mix, Dry Cereal, and Sugary candies like Jelly Beans and Twizzlers travel well. If you bring your own tea bags, you can ask for hot water. I've even done that with Instant Oatmeal for breakfast on overnight flights. If you ask, the flight attendants are usually very accomdating--just be sure to ask when they aren't terribly busy (like just after take-off). Once when I had run out of things to eat, and I couldn't eat the meal, the flight attendant gave me all the left-over pretzel packages.

If you are traveling for a month, it would obviously be very difficult to take enough food for a month. But, don't forget that you can find a grocery store at your destination. Depending on your destination, some things may be harder to find, or the same brands may not be available so you might have to read the ingredients again. But, it is usually easy to find staples such as bananas, potatoes, etc.

Also, what you eat depends on where you are going, and what situation you will be in. Will you be staying with family? In a hotel? Will you have access to a kitchen/ refridgerator/ microwave, etc? If you are traveling to the USA or England or some other countries, people on the board can give you safe recommendations for new brands to the foods you eat the most. Or, other countries with different eating habits (like Rice-based Asian cuisines) can actually be quite easy to adapt to.

Good luck with your travels!

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Edited by AlyssaKaye (04/20/05 02:02 PM)

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