Want to make Thanksgiving dinner after which take it with you in your flight to your grandmother's house?
“Before you agree to bring a family favorite meal to put on the Thanksgiving table, it is important to think about how you will transport it when you fly to spend the holiday with family or friends,” said the TSA. “Most food items can be transported through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, but there are some items that must be transported in checked baggage.”
A basic rule is: If it’s a solid object, it could possibly go through a checkpoint. But when you can spill, spread, spray, pump, or pour it — and it's larger than 3.4 ounces — then it should slot in a checked bag. Ice packs could be used to preserve items, but they have to be frozen.
Any food will likely need additional testing, so an easily accessible carrier ought to be used.
Here is a listing of Thanksgiving foods that could be transported through a TSA checkpoint:
- Baked goods. Homemade or store-bought cakes, cookies, brownies and other sweet treats.
- Meat. Turkey, chicken, ham, steak. Frozen, cooked or uncooked.
- Filling. Cooked, uncooked, in a box or in a bag.
- Casseroles. Traditional green beans and onion straws or something more exotic.
- Macaroni and cheese. Cooked in a pan or traveling with the ingredients to cook it at your destination.
- Fresh vegetables. Potatoes, yams, broccoli, green beans, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, turnips, radishes, carrots, pumpkin, vegetables.
- Fresh fruit. Apples, pears, pineapples, lemons, limes, cranberries, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, kiwi.
- Sweets.
- Spices.
Thanksgiving Foods to Pack Carefully in Your Checked Luggage:
- Cranberry sauce. Homemade or canned are spreadable, so check them out.
- Sauce. Homemade or in a jar/can.
- Wine, champagne, sparkling cider.
- Canned fruit or vegetables. There is liquid within the can, so check it.
- Jams, jams and jellies. They are spreadable so it's best to examine them.
- maple syrup.
For more information, download the free myTSA app, which incorporates the “What can I bring?” Feature that lets you enter the item to search out out if it could possibly fly. Or ask on Twitter or Facebook Messenger at @AskTSA. Travelers can submit an issue by texting “Travel” to AskTSA (275-872).
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