Taking food in to the US

[WileyCoyote]

Originally Posted by geoffa

If you've bought snacks for the plane and it includes fresh fruit - leave it on the plane if you don't eat it.

Basically - fresh fruit, unprocessed nuts, seeds of any kind, soft dairy or anything containing beef are all barred.

Biscuits, cereals, coffee, tea,chocolate are all fine. Be sure to say Yes to Question 11 on the blue and white form and tell the Customs Officer what you have. 9 times out of 10 they will wave you through. One out of ten and they'll x ray your case.

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We were that one last week ! I already wrote a list of what we had in case this happened . We knew we had to tick the "food" box even tho it was all processed "rubbish" . The first officer sent us to the second bag check. There was no line and we were seen straight away. The officer there laughed when we showed the list ( crisps, sweets etc) and wasn't sure why we had been sent over but all our bags were X rayed and we were on our way in a few minutes. It hardly delayed us ... Not like the looooong line to use the kiosks