Has anyone ordered their on-board meal under the Special Meals categories? ex. Low-fat, Low Cholesterol, or Diabetic...

Did you find it more palatable than whatever is normally served for the hot meal? (this is for overseas flight).

The only benefit to ordering a special meal is that it MIGHT be fresher than the standard meal.

If you order too restrictive of a diet like low fat - it will really be LOW FAT and maybe low flavor too.

A good special meal that's not overly restrictive is to order Vegetarian.

I've ordered special meals, and feel that it is a toss-up.

So what might come on a 'Vegetarian' meal? Salad would be good. Cooked veggies? A starch? Any brownies or cookies with that?

On Continental they have a "Hindu" meal which is Indian Vegetarian food (what I have on the India route).
Their other veg. option is VEGAN which I haven't tried.

If you're not into Indian food, I would go with Vegan as my next option over the others as you're more likely to get things with flavor.

Usually I get 'lacto-ovo', which means you get milk and eggs on addition to veggies, pasta, bread, cookies, and such. Continental lists only "Vegan", which I wouldn't get.

http://www.continental.com/web/en-US...l/default.aspx

It's tougher on Continental because they go straight to Vegan with nothing in between. I'm lacto-ovo veg. but that's not an option on this airline. Even the Hindu meal excludes dairy which isn't authentic because Hindus do consume milk.