Originally Posted by
vossman
As a father with two boys under 10 that always flies first based in MSP, my recommendation is to order the kids meal as a special request. From my experience on 20 meal flights this year with the boys we had 10 flights with a grilled cheese or cold cheese sandwich, 5 flights with hamburgers and fries
and 5 flights with random kids items like chicken fingers , ect.
Overall if the kids meal isn't appealing I immediately ask and receive a snack box from coach without charge or fuss. My boys like the crackers and goldfish snack box the best.
if you decide to order adult meals for both check your flight number and remember that odd ending flights serve back to front and even serves front to back. That is critical to ensure you even get a choice of meals when they come to you - and when you get on ask the purser what the flight number is and gently ask/remind them of the serving rules to ensure they don't go front to back by default on your flight.
As others stated good luck and have fun!
On odd number flights, having FEBO followed is very hit or miss, and more often "miss" (@ OP - if you don't know "FEBO" means "Front Even, Back Odd" referring to which part of the cabin they will start taking meal orders from). On odd flights, if I care about meal selection, I usually pick a seat in the middle of the cabin that way whether FEBO is followed or not, they should still have my choice if I'm seated in the middle versus being in the back hoping for FEBO and then the FA starts up front.