Flying with food...

[ain0004]

We are traveling for 12 days to Disney. 2 hour plane trip. I am highly considering. Bringing own own meat in my carry on. For several reasons. I would travel with the meat frozen. Anyone do this? Years ago my brother did this. I can’t seem to find information... thanks in advance

 

[Traveling on cc points]

Yes. It is right on the tsa website.
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/food?page=2

 

[_19disnA]

In addition to those TSA rules, I would only travel with perishable food items if you have access to dry ice. Dry ice requires appropriate packing so the resulting gas can escape without damaging the container. Regular ice will tend to melt, make a mess and possibly cause the food to spoil. In addition to the 2 hr flight time you mentioned, there is also travel time both for departure and arrival, so likely you are more in the 5-6 hours timeframe.

Might be more practical to visit a grocery store once you arrive in Orlando.

 

[Jimsig]

In addition to those TSA rules, I would only travel with perishable food items if you have access to dry ice. Dry ice requires appropriate packing so the resulting gas can escape without damaging the container. Regular ice will tend to melt, make a mess and possibly cause the food to spoil. In addition to the 2 hr flight time you mentioned, there is also travel time both for departure and arrival, so likely you are more in the 5-6 hours timeframe.

Might be more practical to visit a grocery store once you arrive in Orlando.

The FAA allows dry ice, however it's up to the airline

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/dry-ice
https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe...hen in checked baggage, the,(5.5 lbs) or less.

 

[_19disnA]

Curious how much 12 days worth of meat/dry ice would weigh? Seems it would be heavy and rather large as a carry-on.

 

[Disney st8 of mind]

Food is so easily accessible now with all the delivery companies... why would you want to travel with meat in a carry on? Is it a special kind?

 

[jo-jo]

Before all the delivery services popped up, when just DH and I were traveling, we would bring a few frozen items. It would kill me to pay $3 for a 2 oz blob at cream cheese at the disney store. I would bring frozen butter, frozen brown and serve sausage, cheese, home made mini quiche . All in a flat cooler like you would carry a casserole dish in. I wouldn't freeze the cream cheese, but tuck it in at last moment. Then wrap it in a bathrobe that I always carry to disney. And then pop the whole thing into a suitcase , not carryon. We fly from Phila.

But now is a different day. I might bring something if it was something I really really needed.

 

[Halle]

I always pack food. I make a macaroni and cheese casserole in a disposable aluminum foil pan and freeze it. I put it in a flat cooler (which PP mentioned), add deli meats, cheeses and a pound of frozen butter. I do order from Instacart but don't trust that they will have deli items sliced to my satisfaction.

 

[kylenne]

Food sets off TSA scanners and while I haven’t flown in Covid times yet, TSA is now instructing pax take food items out of carry ons and place them in a bin for separate screening (Pre is exempt). They are trying to minimize the amount of manual searches in people’s bags.

Honestly seems like too much of a headache for anything more than small snacks.

https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus

 

[FCDub]

Honestly seems like too much of a headache for anything more than small snacks.

https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus

Same. This is pretty wild to me.