Best meals to eat to ensure sleep on red-eye flight

Airline meals are designed to help you sleep. The ones they serve after take-off are usually very carb heavy - rice, potato, pasta. If it’s a long flight, then the second meal is usually protein rich - eggs, etc.

If you’re not getting a meal on-board then take something carb heavy like a bagel.

10 Marie Calendar’s chicken pot pies.

Triple cheeseburger, fries, and melatonin gummies. Get your overeat on, and the neanderthal within will demand sleep.

Everyone recommending light and healthy foods have never experienced that post-Thanksgiving food coma.

An edible;)

A meal of lorazepam and alcohol.

Cherry juice is what I drink when I have a hard time sleeping, also apple juice works for me but I haven’t heard that it makes anyone else tired lol.

Turkey burger, light on the condiments and no onion.

Anything easy to digest would help to fall asleep. Usually you’d know best what works for you - anything ‘new’ might cause problems. More importantly though, staying asleep might be easier if you have not drunk and eaten too much, because you’ll probably not get back to sleep after a sprint to the lavatory.

Glycinate is supposed to be the easiest on the bowels but I would advise a test before you depart. I have no issues with it, but we all vary. I sleep much better with glycinate. You might ask in r/supplements for other opinions.

Carbs are your best friend: pasta, rice, or a good ol’ peanut butter sandwich knocks me out like a toddler after recess. Bananas help too, but let’s be real, a heavy meal and a window seat do most of the work.

I eat something I normally eat for dinner (keeping it light). Why take a chance with something your stomach isn’t familiar with?

I avoid eating. Food just gives me energy.

Entire Thanksgiving dinner right before departure. Pack a leftovers sandwich in your carry-on in case you get peckish in the air.

Benadryl.

Whiskey.

I avoid greasy food. I’ll also look at the menu before sitting down. Some countries have decent things like sushi, stir-fry, salad bars. Another approach is to pay for the lounge or check your credit card. It’s not the greatest food but it’s more comfortable waiting and all you can eat with some selection.

Anything heavy and protein, stay away from carbs.

Anything with Ambien.

Just eat a melatonin or an Ambien. No reason to turn this thing into a meal.