My mother flew here recently from another state and was forced to throw out her bbq chicken salad. I heard about that damn salad for 3 days.

In my experience, if you have the young child with you, they are not strict at all. I've taken a lot of pouch food plus milk and water and TSA didn't comment at all

yeah, they have got to be pretty young, though. My 3 year old is in the 10th percentile for height and weight, and looks much younger, but he still didn't get to take his applesauce cup through (which was fine by me, except that it led to waste, I told DH it was a bad idea).

Anonymous wrote:Very dependent on the airport. We were flying home from Israel on united. We were not allowed to bring any sandwiches, fruit or bottled water that was bought after the security check onto the plane.

I would not count on the thermos of chicken and rice.

Ours will be a domestic flight (no food on board unless you purchase it).
I will take snacks, too, just in case.

Very dependent on the airport. We were flying home from Israel on united. We were not allowed to bring any sandwiches, fruit or bottled water that was bought after the security check onto the plane.

I would not count on the thermos of chicken and rice.

I had the opposite experience with the pouches and I had DD with me. I had a couple Greek yogurts and the TSA commented that "the child doesn't eat this," to which I said, "yes, she does," until my DH poked me to stop talking lest they detain us. They didn't, but they did make us dump them, plus a couple of those fruit/yogurt pouches.

I am the chicken and rice PP. it's just rice and pieces of chicken, not stew. Should be fine I guess.

I think the general rule is that liquids over 3 oz/100 ml are not allowed.

I'm not up on the precise exceptions for babies/medical/etc.

For "liquid", the way I think about it is "Can I wrap it in foil, or do I only want to carry it in a leakproof container?" If it must be in a container, most TSA agents consider it liquid, though of course ymmv.

So: yogurt or "wet" chicken and rice (like a stew), would be "liquid" and I wouldn't count on or expect to be able to carry it.

But a sandwich, whole fruit, cut-up fruit in a baggie, a piece of cooked chicken with rice would not be "liquid" and I would expect that it would be OK.

Anonymous wrote:Do you think I can bring rice and chicken in a thermos food jar? The flight is 6 hours, I would prefer my kid to have a proper lunch (unfortunately he does not like sandwiches)

I'm sure that's fine.

Regarding liquids, I took a few small cups of hot sauce through before, but security jokingly tried to confiscate my burrito. I was so nervous. Hey, they were from San Diego!

Do you think I can bring rice and chicken in a thermos food jar? The flight is 6 hours, I would prefer my kid to have a proper lunch (unfortunately he does not like sandwiches)

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Anonymous wrote:Reading the link it says toddlers and only medically necessary liquids and only quantities for the flight.

Reading this I assume milk and formula only. Not sure applesauce and yogurt would qualify.

In my experience, if you have the young child with you, they are not strict at all. I've taken a lot of pouch food plus milk and water and TSA didn't comment at all.

Yup. Never had a problem with this.

I just did this...my 2.5 year old has soy and dairy allergies so I let the agent know why we had a tetra pack of coconut milk and water with us.

They would not let applesauce cups through when I was traveling with my 3 yo. They were 4 oz, too big. TSA guy let my son go eat it and then let us jump the line. He felt bad.

True story, I brought leftover wiener snitzal (sic) in a styrofoam takeout container thru O'hare last December.

I didn't care either way, was curious if they'd stop me, and they didn't.

Liquids, like others say, are a no no.

It really depends on the airport and which TSA guy you get. I had a sandwich with mustard and the guy took it away. Who knows ... maybe he was hungry!

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Anonymous wrote:I just had to throw away three Chobani yogurts at Dulles! Not happy at all about that.

Bummer! But good to know, thanks.

My kids usually eat plain greek yogurt, but that is almost always thrown away because, apparently, it's "adult" food. Who knew? But we've never had problems with the obnoxiously flavored and packaged yogurt that is specifically labeled as for kids. My kids call it "airplane yogurt."

TSA made me throw out humus, FYI. If it is a soft substance, it probably won't make it through.