What food do you pack in your checked luggage?

[Adora]

Just curious what food you guys pack in your checked luggage. We'll be flying from Newfoundland, Canada, and I was considering bringing some breakfast and snack things. So whatcha bring??

 

[JennyDrake]

On occasion I have brought: granola bars, fruit roll ups, prepackaged peanut butter and crackers, mini boxes of raisins and small packages/bags of cookies.

Jenny

 

[Nite0wl71]

We take granola bars, gold fish, M&M's, Ritz crackers things like that.

 

[Carrie772]

I have brought juice boxes, and granola bars, nut bars, cookies, and handi snacks...cheese and crackers in one. It's nice to have treats in the room so you don't have to go to the vending machines.

 

[THE HAT]

we brought alot of different snacks last time. (the small lunch box bags) cookies, cheese itz, twix bars. pb crackers etc. we put a few in the back pack every day, and hardly ate any of them. we also stopped at the grodery store for some other snacks and water and mt dew (dh vice) and found that we ended up not eating any of it (water and dew were gone). we ended up bringing home almost all we took with us. so next january we are only bringing a few things in the carry ons for snacks on the plane and that is it. (we will stop for water and dew again though).
we would rather have a disney snack then something from home. and we really enjoy heading to the food court for breakfast.

 

[polly p]

we brought alot of different snacks last time. (the small lunch box bags) cookies, cheese itz, twix bars. pb crackers etc. we put a few in the back pack every day, and hardly ate any of them. we also stopped at the grodery store for some other snacks and water and mt dew (dh vice) and found that we ended up not eating any of it (water and dew were gone). we ended up bringing home almost all we took with us. so next january we are only bringing a few things in the carry ons for snacks on the plane and that is it. (we will stop for water and dew again though).
we would rather have a disney snack then something from home. and we really enjoy heading to the food court for breakfast.

We did the same thing and brought most of it home too.

 

[joshsmom]

We have one backpack that we use to take food with it (its one of our carry-ons). We take small jars of peanut butter and jelly, a loaf of bread (in a plastic container--it stands straight up in the backpack and doesn't take much room), cereal bars, fruit snacks, prepackaged cheese and crackers, a jar of mixed nuts, and individual boxes of cereal. We eat the pb&j and/or cereal for breakfast and snacks when we come in from the parks. We take the other stuff with us in the parks, except the nuts. Those are for my mom. I have NO IDEA why she feels the need to tote nuts with her, but if it makes her happy, its fine with me!!

 

[traciedee]

We know we'll be eating out most of the time, but we like to grab a quick breakfast in the condo before we go and my hubby likes a late night snack.

I'll usually bring bagels and cream cheese, english muffins, peanut butter, dry roasted nuts, cheese, summer sausage and crackers, chocolate and coffee and a small milk (for coffee) to get us through the first morning. I also bring a little soft side cooler to leave in the car and stick water in it for our trips to and from where ever we are going.

I would wait and buy it there, but it always takes us a couple of days tomake it to the store.

I don't take a lot in to the parks cause as most posters say the kids (and me) would rather eat something fun and who wants to carry it around?

 

[ryanally]

We bring much of the same. Also pop tarts and those individual boxes of cereal so all we need is some milk.

 

[Deb in IA]

Individual packages of Pringles (they don't get crushed!). Fruit snacks (Gushers, Fruit by the Foot). Cereal bars.

Avoid anything with chocolate . . . it will melt.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Water bottles, Malibu Rum , fruit snacks, cereal, pop tarts, pretzels, cereal bars, protein shakes (the kind in plastic bottles or pouches, NOT cans), peanuts, beef jerkey and Luna bars. Thats what comes off the top of my head. I always double ply stuff in plastic zip lock bags in case it explodes or something (which it never has). And the cereal I put in a Rubbermaid cereal container now since one time my Cheerios depressurized and were pretty much powder. Didn't explode out but my goodness they were smashed, with no air left in the plastic pouch at all. And I make sure my Malibu is brand new, sealed so TSA can't take a nip and think I won't notice!

 

[Chester's Mum]

Just curious what food you guys pack in your checked luggage. We'll be flying from Newfoundland, Canada, and I was considering bringing some breakfast and snack things. So whatcha bring??

Believe it or not, I brought a toaster ($8.97 at Walmart) on my last trip, I was not getting a car so could not do grocery thing when I got there. In checked luggage, I brought 1 package of bagels, 1 jar of nutella, 1 jar of peanut butter, 1 package of cheese slices, box of cereal, granola bars, fruit juice gummy thingies that my son likes (oh, and some butter in a little rubbermaid container). We bought milk and juice at the convenience store in the resort. I just couldn't see blowing $25-$30 on breakfast, but we ate out for all the other meals. While we were there I did end up renting a car for 3 days, and refilled my stocks (we were there for 10 days). We dumped everything that was left over (and then some) on our return because it wouldn't fit in the luggage, but that was my plan to begin with. (It did hurt my stingy psyche to leave the toaster behind).

I said a quiet prayer when we embarked on our trip that no one would ask me to open my suitcase. If they had, I'd probably be writing this from the loony bin. Anyhow, it worked for me.

 

[Claudia Kellenberger]

Now, I am not positive about this, but somewhere I think I read that you should never keep any chocolate in your *checked* luggage. It was something about confusing the drug sniffing dogs. Any bags with chocolate in them have a bigger chance of being searched.

I brought some snacks in my carry-on like those little boxes of graham crackers, small baggies of chocolate chip cookies, and the old fashioned animal crackers. You should bring a zip-lock baggie to put in the left overs.
When I didn't eat the full box, I folded down the wax paper carefully, and every time my snacks were very stale by the next morning. I think it was something about the humidity in the room. I try to always bring a few envelopes of instant oatmeal, because that is my late night snack.
Every year, I always seem to bring too many snacks, though, and take most home with me.