Taking food on a flight

[visitingapril09]

We are a family of 6 flying from Seattle to Orlando and vice versa. We don't particularly want to purchase food on our Alaska flights, can you pack food? If so, is there limitations, other that the liquid limitations? Also, can you bring fruit?

 

[aubriee]

As long as it's not liquid, they don't care. You can carry a peanut butter sandwich on, but not a jar of peanut butter. You can carry a meat sandwich on, but the mustard must either be on the sandwich or in one of those little condiment foil containers and in your 3-1-1 bag. You can carry bagels with cream cheese on them, but if carried separate, the cream cheese would have to be in a tub less than 3.4 oz and inside your 3-1-1 bag. Fruit of any kind is not problem. Gogurt would be, because it would be considered a liquid. You can not carry drinks through security but can either buy them after security or you can carry an empty water bottle and fill at any fountain after security, then add a drink mix to it. Due to fellow flyers with nut allergies, you might want to avoid anything with nuts. You might also want to avoid anything smelly for the comfort of your fellow passengers.

 

[Jestocost]

Also, no ice or ice packs to keep the food cold. You can freeze a bunch of grapes and use that, however.

 

[visitingapril09]

Great ideas! thanks.

On the matter of ice, or an ice pack, our daughter is diabetic and we need to take insulin on the flight which requires being kept cold. I was going to put an ice block (one of those lunch box size ones) in a soft sided lunch kit.......is that going to be a problem?

 

[WDWisTheBest]

As long as it's not liquid, they don't care. You can carry a peanut butter sandwich on, but not a jar of peanut butter. You can carry a meat sandwich on, but the mustard must either be on the sandwich or in one of those little condiment foil containers and in your 3-1-1 bag. You can carry bagels with cream cheese on them, but if carried separate, the cream cheese would have to be in a tub less than 3.4 oz and inside your 3-1-1 bag. Fruit of any kind is not problem. Gogurt would be, because it would be considered a liquid. You can not carry drinks through security but can either buy them after security or you can carry an empty water bottle and fill at any fountain after security, then add a drink mix to it. Due to fellow flyers with nut allergies, you might want to avoid anything with nuts. You might also want to avoid anything smelly for the comfort of your fellow passengers.

Please no tuna sandwiches.

 

[Jestocost]

Great ideas! thanks.

On the matter of ice, or an ice pack, our daughter is diabetic and we need to take insulin on the flight which requires being kept cold. I was going to put an ice block (one of those lunch box size ones) in a soft sided lunch kit.......is that going to be a problem?

Ice packs are allowed if they are required to keep medications cold. Your plan will work just fine, but be sure to alert the TSA screener about what you are carrying and follow their instructions.