I've been on this flight once before, but in J. This time (1 Nov) it was in Y, made more bearable by being given the bulkhead aisle by the nice check-in lady.

We were fed 2 hours into the flight ("lunch") and then again 9 hours into the flight ("dinner"). The lights were turned on so that everyone would wake up and eat. For the rest of the 15-hour flight there was no food except the packaged cookies and chips (all the sandwiches were long gone by then and I saw no evidence of noodles).

Is this normal, and why? They didn't do it in J my previous time, and I've never seen this practice on similar-length flights on other airlines.