Getting food past security

I generally have a bag of nuts, a "bar" of some sort, and even an apple in my bag when flying to Europe. I never get snagged, and am not even sure if I am doing anything wrong. Honestly, I worry more at the Canadian border when we're going into and out of Vancouver than I do bringing healthy snacks onto a plane to Europe. Could the yoghurt thing have been because it a "liquid or gel?" I am not being funny. I am seriously thinking that it's the fact that yoghurt is a liquid/gel that might have been the problem. That being said, I know you'll get some more awesome specifics from folks here. Oh - and one last point: all they can do is make you throw it away. If you lose $5.99 worth of apples and nuts, and you have to buy food on the flight, you aren't out all that much. If you get to keep it, you don't have to eat the scary, salty, preservative-laden stodge that passes for plane "food."

We have taken a lot of packaged dried fruit and nuts, wrapped bars, with absolutely no problems. Yogurt flunks the liquid test unless you could find 3 oz portions.

@Frank: AND put it in my 3-1-1 bag ;)

I usually take cereal bars on these transcontinental flights. As for beverages, it is just a matter of buying something after security. Once there was this couple who had bought some Pizza Hut on the store right at the gate and took it on board. The maximum I did was to take a Startbucks muffin and a can of Coke.

As far as beverages go, I always take an empty water bottle through security and fill it at a water fountain once I get to the terminal.

I take a disposable "ziploc" square filled with trailmix and 2 or 3 granola bars. If I'm leaving out of Lewiston, I buy a bottle of water after going through Security so that I then have a bottle to refill. (After Security we don't have a water fountain to fill an empty bottle and we don't have restrooms!)

You can take whatever food you want as long as it is not more than 3 oz of a liquid, a cream or a gel that fits in the 3-1-1- bag. I've taken, from home, bagels, tomatos, bananas, apples, sandwiches, celery sticks and carrot sticks. Be careful with food safety, those blue re-freezable things are too big. Anything you purchase after security can be brought on the plane including salads, soups, sandwiches, coffee, tea, water and soft drinks of any size.

Kira, about the yogurt, that was my first thought too when I read it! Since you're going on a long flight I suggest a couple of the individual sized cereal boxes for breakfast, just get the milk on the flight!

What about bagels with cream cheese on them? I was wondering if the cream cheese would cause a problem if it is already spread on the bagels??

Just out of curiosity, if you don't eat all your fresh fruit, do you have to dispose of it before entering another country? This is something really strictly enforced fllying within Australia and of course, entering australia. Airports have very cute fruit sniffing beagle dogs.

Good question. The US is fairly strict about fruits as well, with food sniffing dogs doing there thing in the customs halls. I can't recall seeing anything like that entering the EU. I've spotted money and drug sniffing dogs at Schipol, Heathrow, and Gatwick...but never for fruits.

Some airlines still have a pre-order meal option; the fruit and cheese plate is usually a good choice. In August, I had to give up the bottle of water I bought after I went through security check, so filling an empty bottle before you board the plane might not work. You could ask the flight attendant to fill it for you once on board, though.

The vegetarian option on these trans-atlantic flights have kept me from complaining how awful the airplane food is. If you are concerned over how unhealthy the plane food is, just switch it to a more healthier option. Plus you get your food first. Delta has a wonderful online option to allow one to select what type of food standard one has.
You should consider purchasing the yogurts after the security check. I am amazed at what foods people bring on the plane. Some of it should be banned......like an onion sub sandwich that the man next to me brought on when i was to the brim with motion sickness. The plane was full and I could not be moved.

I guess no one has noticed that the OP left on her trip two days ago.