Once we got free, hot meals in coach. Then just cold sandwiches. Then we paid for the sandwiches. And now comes the next evolution in airline food: snack boxes, sometimes free, often not. American, ...

At the top of your list of what to pack for a trip should be something very important: snacks. Because let's face it — airplane food is not the best (there's a reason Gordon Ramsay would never eat it) ...