<p>Just reviewed the TSA regulations. I understand about the 3 oz of liquid/gel/aerosol secured in a quart sized zip-lock bag piece, but my question is: Am I allowed to take Christmas cookies or a loaf of banana bread in a zip-lock bag onto the aircraft in my carry-on? </p>
<p>Quoting from the TSA web site:
“You can bring pies and cakes through the security checkpoint, but please be advised that they are subject to additional screening.”</p>
<p>Is it safe to assume my cookies/banana bread will be treated as if pies or cakes were involved? I’d hate to have to pitch homemade bakery items at the security gate!</p>
<p>I’ve never had any problem with food. Now the metal birdhouse I was carrying on last time caused them to search my bag but I thought that would happen. I think you’re fine with the bread.</p>
<p>The things that cause issues are jellied and liquid. The rest are fine. They will send them through xray to make sure nothing is inside them. No wrapping is safer. You never know which security gate will let something wrapped through and which one won’t.</p>
<p>My son has had food confiscated. The hummous I could maybe understand, but the sesame noodles made me mad. It was homemade, so not labeled or sealed, but give the kid a break! I was trying to send him off with food. They sure don’t give you any on most flights, hardly even in first class. What if he had been diabetic?!</p>
<p>At BWI 2 days before Thanksgiving, I watched someone put a frozen turkey through the X-ray machine. I didn’t stick around to find out if they let that thing through or not, but I was astonished</p>
<p>Anything in cans is suspect. We put a can of chocolate covered pretzels in our D’s checked luggage, but I knew it would set off the sensors, so I wrapped it without tape. Sure enough, it was opened and examined, but not confiscated.</p>
<p>Dry goods, including banana nut bread, should be fine in carry on, but strong suggest you either not wrap at all (other than clear saran wrap), or wrap without tape. Just fold the Christmas wrap, and tape it when you get to your destination.</p>
<p>soccergurl that is hilarious and so sad. I’m sure that person said “I’ll bring the turkey!”…even though they were flying. I hope it fit in the underseat area…i sure wouldn’t want a frozen turkey in the overhead over my head. OMG. I feel so sorry for flight attendants these days.</p>
<p>A friend of my wife had the guts to ask her to fly some frozen fish (not cooked yet but chopped into several pieces for easier packing) for her, just because her friend believes the fish purchased on the coast is fresh. No, she did not carry it on; she put it into a checked luggage. It took a lot of precious space of her luggage because she wrapped the fish with several frozen heating (cooling?) pads.</p>
<p>The frozen fish had actually been in our freezer for many days before my wife had a chance to visit her friend. How “fresh” it would be after so many days! </p>
<p>She said afterwards she would never do such a “stupid” thing again just because her friend asked her to do that. I do not know whether she violated any TSA rule, but if the luggage is lost or delayed, the fish could be rotten inside her luggage.</p>
<p>I believe my wife once tempted to cook a dinner and frozen it and put it into DS’s luggage. So that DS could have home-cooked dinner after microwaved, when he arrived at the campus late in the evening. I forgot whether she actually did it or not. If she actually did it, she herself tends to do stupid thing.</p>
<p>A few years ago, a relative flew and took a 5 pound bag of apples, and a 5 pound bag of potatoes…in checked baggage. How silly! There WERE grocery stores at the destination.</p>
<p>That is silly. Why bring more than you have to?
I usually bring food with me though, whether I am on a airplane or the train, I’ve experienced too many delays & running out of anything edible to do otherwise.</p>