Originally Posted by AndyPatterson

My experience on red-eye UA flights (trans-Atlantic) is that it is much better to eat a not-too-spicy but tasty dinner in the LH lounge beforehand, and then go right to sleep after takeoff, skipping the UA in-flight dinner! LH's lounge offerings are nutritious, tasty, but not too spicy to keep me awake at night (that would be Turkish Airlines), just right for a red-eye.... I do take the in-flight breakfast.