Offering Customized food choices during travel will rejoice the tourists

 Tagline:  Food choices for health restricted masses: enjoy the natural charm of tourism

Traveling is more overjoyed with yummy and quality food choices. Busy schedule of life needs a break and travelling to interesting places is a fun and mind soothing. We can interact with people of diverse culture, enjoy lovely sight-seeing, and spend time in eating appetizing dishes. Among numerous pleasurable events, tourists fully enjoy the taste of delicious, ethnic and blended food.

Eating with family and friends while traveling to other city or different parts of world leave a memorable experience for people that can be a valuable asset for whole life. It is stirring experience to taste new flavors, innovative recipes of particular region or in foreign countries.

Exploring lip-smacking snacks, sweets or meals during long distance travel pose intense challenge for people who have some health restrictions such as low fat or low cholesterol food or sugar free diets. Another category of people undergo with health precautions are those who suffer from severe food allergies. 

Voyagers with allergy or other health restrictions who plan for long distance travel such as 24-hour journey encounter varied issues with food supplies to them in aircraft. Though, almost all airline companies offer food choices in vegetarian and nonvegetarian categories but there is a limited list of recopies in their menu card.

Airline companies must focus on “food choices” according to travelers’ requirement and set menu accordingly. There must be an option of customized meals for food allergic people. It will help to reduce any health hazards during flight.

We can portray an example of people having health restrictions and their food choices during journey. Person travelling from Bangalore, India to Chicago, US have wide range of food allergies like dry nuts, soyabean, peanut oils, vegetables that include cabbage, beans, capsicum, Radish, fruits such as Papaya, Rajma and not allowed to eat spices such as red or green chili, garlic, ginger, black pepper. With lots of allergy, guy is having problem in long distance journey. Over and above it should be vegetarian food. Below is the food plan for food allergic people:

Food selection in breakfast:

Potato, cauliflower or paneer paratha with cucumber curd raita or plain lassi. In filling, use cumin seeds, salt, coriander leaves, chopped onion a pinch clove powder, a pinch big cardamom powder, fenugreek seeds in mashed potato. Apply butter, pure ghee or sunflower oil to prepare paratha.  Include apple. As a sweet, plain besan halwa or semolina halwa, besan laddo garnished with small cardamom and raisins can be served.

Other options are dhokla without any spice can be offered with coriander and pudina chutney in which ingredients may be coriander and pudina leaves, cumin seed, salt, and tomatoes.

Puri fried in sunflower or pure ghee and potato peas curry with ingredients like coriander powder, turmeric, onion, salt to taste, tomato and coriander leaves for garnishing.

Mixed Fruits added in corn flour and milk cooked with sugar can be sweet option in breakfast

Mid meal: Pineapple juice, Apple juice, roasted makhana, banana, Musk melon, or water melon.

Whole moong of black channa sprouts is also healthy option

Main course:

1.    Arhar or red gram dal seasoned with cumin seeds, onion and butter

2.    Plain Tandoori roti,

3.    Paneer or peas paneer curry that include salt, coriander powder, turmeric, coriander leaves, tomato and onion. This veg can also be prepared in cream base with cheese.

4.    Bhindi masala in pure ghee cut in long shape with whole spices like cumin seeds, fenugreek seed, fennel seeds, mustard seeds and carrom seeds all grinded. Salt can be added to taste.

5.    Plain Rice or jeera rice

6.    Salad includes onion, cucumber, and carrot.

7.    Desserts as mango,  pineapple or vanilla ice-cream with milk, fruit and sugar as ingredients, rice pudding

Evening snacks:

Puffed salty rice roasted and seasoned with curry leaves and mustard seed,

Potato cutlet fried in pure ghee or sunflower oil and added with rice granules, or semolina to make crispy, carrot, peas, coriander leaves, salt to taste, cumin seeds, corn flour. Pomegranate juice can be served with snacks. Black or green tea is also an option.

Onion or paneer pakora without spices (Typical Indian snacks), is also mouthwatering food choices as evening snacks. These can be served with coco drink (coco mixed with hot water and sugar).

Plain moong halwa, may be offered in between meals

Dinner:

1.    Tandoori roti

2.    Cauliflower and potato veg (Refer to main course meal for ingredients).

3.    Palak panner with ingredients like turmeric, coriander leaves, fenugreek seed, salt to taste and cream for garnishing,

4.    Plain Jeera rice.

5.    Desserts include sweet curd with raisins, crumbled dried dates.

In similar fashion, food plan for long distance travel can be designed for diabetic people. People recommended for low fat and people who suffer from gastric trouble.

Airlines companies or catering companies for serving food to train must hire food counselor to customize recipes for such valued travelers to have amazing experience during travel and gain competitive advantage in business. Food counselor must synchronize with Chef to prepare delicious and healthy meals for customers.

 

Honest message through above article bursting with ideas and instances:

Our planet is advancing and overfilling with people. We all have growing desire to feel rainbow experience in our life. To accomplish such targets, travelers around the globe must be satisfied through offering customized food to arrest their health threats that can spoil their exciting travel plan. Food processing companies and all travel media must espouse above effectual advice to implement such tactics to delight customers and enhance monetary graph through massive bookings.

Bottom line:

Holiday trip is planned to get some astonishing experiences with family and delicious eatables to add thrills in vacation. It is accentuated that all people cannot enjoy eating fatty and spicy meals, snacks in their long journey. Therefore, food customization is really an excellent move for all travel modes whether it is airlines, trains or road. Travelers having food allergies or other food restrictions may really enjoy by getting flavor of their choices and requirement during their trip. Such revolutionized steps will give pleasurable experience to holidaymakers and reduce health hazards during journey and in turn oceanic profit to travel companies.  

 

 

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