Delta Airlines Vegan Meals
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Cross-country flights on Delta offer a free vegan meal, but you can’t select it in advance, like you can with trans-continental flights (unless you fly first class).
I know Delta Airlines has a bad rep. However, they have some positives too.
- USB outlets at every seat
- Free movies (at least on cross-continental and international flights)
- Free flight when you apply for their credit card
- Vegan meal option (for free!) on cross country flights
Free Vegan Meals on Delta Transcontinental Flights
If you are taking an international flight, the Delta special meals webpage has everything you need to know about requesting your vegan meal. Do it at least 24 hours in advance. I always just do it when I book the flight so I won’t forget later.
Choose the option called vegetarian (vegan). Some of the meals include impossible burgers, vegan meatballs, vegetable tagine with roasted sweet potatoes, and a vegan antipasto plate, but you won’t know what you’re gonna get until your flight. Aren’t surprises fun?
Free Vegan Meals on Delta Cross Country Flights
The menus in the back of the seat pockets always have 3 options. It took way more research than any one person should have to do on slow af airline wifi to determine if any of the free meals served on Delta Airlines flights are vegan. So, I was determined to write this post to save the rest of the traveling vegans from enduring the same painstaking research burnout that I underwent.
Delta Lunch Menu
Here is the delta lunch menu they had in the seat pocket of my flight from New York to San Francisco.
From first glance, I guessed the Luvo Harissa Roasted Veggie Wrap could be vegan, but you can never tell what people will sneak into shit, so I wasn’t about to eat it without confirming. After what felt like forever, I finally was able to find the ingredients list online.
And for anyone who cares (not me), here are the nutrition facts as well.
Delta Breakfast and Dinner Menus
The Delta breakfast menu offers 3 choices, and none are vegan. However, if you get the yogurt one, the fruit is obviously vegan.
The dinner menu currently has nothing vegan.
Free Vegan Snacks on Delta Flights
In addition to the free meals, Delta also offers complimentary snacks on their flights. Of these snacks, some of the vegan options are below.
- Lotus biscoff cookies (more about these in my biscoff sauce recipe)
- 88 Acres dark chocolate sea salt seed & oat bars
- Vegobear vegan gummy bears (only available in First Class and Delta Comfort Plus)
- Fit Joy tangy dijon mustard pretzels
- Late July sea salt multigrain tortilla chips
- Mary’s Gone Crackers Super Seed Crackers
Vegan Food For Purchase on Delta Flights
If you didn’t bring any food, and you’re hungry on a delta flight that has little to no vegan options in their compliemntary offerings, you can purchase a market snack box for $10. It is almost entirely vegan with pita chips, hummus, olives, dried fruit, almonds, and a ginger chew. I think it has one other item, and I’m not sure if that item is vegan or not.
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