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Pack Food For Your Flight To Keep the Crankies At Bay

Hunger may be the best sauce, but outrage will do: Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was forced to apologize after taking a flight attendant to task about not getting him the meal he wanted.

Rudd took a 23-year-old flight attendant to task when he was aboard a flight in January on a Royal Australian Air Force plane between Port Moresby and Canberra. Apparently there were no meals available for Rudd's special diet, for which he eschews red meat. (Uh, eat around it, dude?) Rudd told reporters as he arrived in London, "All of us are human I’m human. I’m not perfect, you know."

We still haven't completely nailed down our own personal food-on-the-plane strategy, though of course it depends on the flight. (In one of our Google searches on the subject, the top result was for canned cat food. Don't think so.) Marie Claire travel blogger Sarah Wexler recommends packing pita pockets (hold the mayo), Cup Noodles and individually wrapped candy to keep the angries at bay. Others swear by trail mix, power bars, or their own homemade PB and J. What do you pack to avoid hunger pains in-flight? Tell us in comments below.

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