I have coeliac disease and special meals have now returned to flights. So often I know I could eat the menu item (quinoa salad for instance) but I am not allowed to change as “there aren’t sufficient servings”. Usually I receive chicken or fish. Like all the meals, they are hit and miss. Sometimes good, other times dry. Eat the veggies but leave the meat. Sometimes a meat casserole but fatty and grisly just like normal meals. I’ve never been served pasta or pastry items. There was a sandwich once, but indeed it was like cardboard and inedible! GF bread needs warming to be edible, so I put it under the hot dish. But then you have to ask for butter, as GF combines with dairy free. Some nice but very rich desserts or an apple. I still tend to eat in the lounge and not eat on the flight.
Of course GF still includes Neil Perry’s famous side salad!
International is usually much better, but let’s dream about that for now.