Bringing food on the Airplane

You can get it on the airplane. You can get it off if it's in your belly. You can take left-over trail mix into the UK.

Just like Ed said ... There is no problem bringing food onto the plane. The issue happens when you go through customs. In general, many countries prohibit you from bringing in fresh produce or meats so plan to eat your carrots and celery on the plane or put them in the trash before you get off. Trail mix should not be a problem. In London there are many places to buy carrots, celery, and trail mix so no need to bring more than what you want for the duration of the flight.

what about fingernail clippers with the file attached and twizzers?

You're kidding right? Google how to make a giant bomb with twizzers, or butcher a hog with clippers. No way, but some airports have a deal where you can mail them home to yourself for ten bucks.

lol, Ok I'm not real up on how to make bombs. Thanks for the info

Deborah, here's the TSA link for items prohibited on aircraft: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm I've flown several times to and from Heathrow with 3-inch nail clippers and 3-inch scissors with no problems. For details on the regulations in the UK, Google the airport's site.

Thanks, that helps alot

The link is interesting, but full of caveats and loopholes, all of which are open to interpretataion. My exposure might be a bit higher than the average bear in that I make about a dozen flights into and out of the US a year. Herself is on most of them so let's call it twenty. I'm about to relate instances in the last year and a half, so we'll up it to thirty. In the past year and a half, we've had disposable razors, scissors (mostly handle with a half inch of blade), nail clippers, rounded point metal nail file, and who knows what else confiscated. I pocket knife in a jacket pocket and a large multi-tool in a carry on (unware of where either was) made it through, along with disposable razors, nail clippers . . . . . We've had a TSA guy dump the liquid out of a jar of olives (filtering throught his bare fingers) and had the rest back to us. The Bristish ferry fuzz at Dover confiscated a knife (three inches open) because it had a locking device on the blade, although I'm sure that same knife had passed through the same screening at Dover (tossed in the coin/key tray) several times previously. Everbody's experience is different. Nobody's going to slam you up against the wall. All you're going to do is slow yourself and the lines down. If in doubt, toss it in your checked bag or leave it home and pick up a new one there - - the problem is that you waste time stopping to buy a new set of clippers somewhere. Life sucks. Osama's dead. Things might get better before we die.

There's nothing like actual experience. Bottom line - don't take if it I don't want to run the chance of loosing it. I'll try to take the clipper through, easy to replace ; the tweezer however stays (this one works and I find very few that actually work)
Thanks to all for taking the time to answer my questions

Regarding the tweezers, I was held up going through security in London when they spotted my tweezers in my carry-on and thought it was a scissor (they are the small tweezers with handles similar to a pair of cuticle scissors). Save yourself the hassle and pack your tweezer in the small plastic bag you present for inspection of liquids so they can clearly see what it is.

Trail mix, carrots, and celery sound great. Not like the guy I sat next to a few years ago that ate Keebler Cheese and Peanut Butter Crackers all the way across the Atlantic. By the time we got to Paris he, I, and the guy on the other side of him were all decorated with orange.