Gluten Free special meals (GFML) on my LGW-BKK-LGW return. Bit of a first-world problem but it’s disappointing that BA’s GFML is also lactose free, has been the case for years, so margarine instead of butter, soy yoghurt, soy milk etc.

Quality wasn’t great on this trip in either direction, the best I could say was that it was filling.


BA2231 LGW-BKK 1st meal starter: salmon, fennel, and citrus salad. Served with a small quinoa side salad and a Schär gluten free roll (cold, despite being packaged in “ovenable” wrapper). The best course of the trip, despite the cold roll, fresh flavoured and a good size.

BA2231 LGW-BKK 1st meal main: chicken breast, mashed potato, boiled carrots and beans, some kind of tomatoey gravy. Looks like a car crash, dry chicken albeit tasted OK (but just OK)

BA2231 LGW-BKK 2nd meal breakfast: comically rubberised “poached” egg, mushrooms, beans, spinach. Served with plain soy yoghurt that tasted frankly disgusting.

BA2230 BKK-LGW 1st meal starter: salad with tofu slices. Awful. Potato salad had a weird dressing (neither vinegary nor creamy), what I initially was excited about being halloumi turned out to be cold sliced tofu that tasted like cardboard. Served with a side salad, a slice of GF bread, and, very unhelpfully, a regular bread roll

BA2230 BKK-LGW 1st meal main: white fish (cod maybe?) with boiled potatoes, corn, and asparagus, with a tomato sauce. This was actually ok, fish was moist, veg and sauce were nice too.

BA2230 BKK-LGW 2nd meal breakfast: fruit plate. Served with a carton of soy milk, a slice of GF bread, and the usual margarine packet.

BA2230 BKK-LGW 2nd meal breakfast: half a chicken breast, a hard boiled egg, boiled potatoes, straw mushrooms, spinach, and half a tomato. Bit of a random selection but ok albeit bland. Crew found me a spare butter and jam portion so I at least enjoyed the GF bread.