Does anyone know if I can take a salad to the airport and through security?

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I hate airport food and I would like to take a packed lunch with my to the airport and through security. I have a craving for a dressed salad. Does anyone know if I can take a salad dressed in mayonnaise through security or would the mayonnaise be considered a liquid? Will I play it safe and only bring sandwiches?

This is a thing. https://www.monashfodmap.com/ibs-central/i-have-ibs/starting-the-low-fodmap-diet/

Fibre content also matters.

Why don't you just eat before you go? What is with everyone having to cart food around all the time? Take a breakfast bar or something you can stomach for in case of some food emergency. You do not say, so I assume you don't have a medical condition in which you need to have an emergency supply of food on you.

I often bring food. because airport food is usually crap and I make better sandwich myself.

I travel with salads!

Massive coffee jar and a long fork. Never had a problem at security. Don’t add so much dressing that there is liquid sloshing around the bottom but if you’re going with mayo dressing should be fine.

I have lost a greek yoghurt though as it was classed as a liquid…..

You are not alone, for all sorts of reasons lots of airside workers including crew choose to take their own food airside rather than rely on what is available post security.

There's nothing odd about the OP's situation, arguments and discussions about sauces and dressings started the day the liquids and gels rules came in years ago.

I will need to get a 2 and half hour bus to the airport. I will also need to travel to the bus station. So that's about a 4 hour journey before I even get to the airport.

I likely will eat before I go but due to an early morning flight and loads of waiting around I will need to get food at the airport. I don't want airport food. I can't stomach a lot of foods. There's a lot of foods that I just can't have due to sickness. I vaguely remember last year paying 16 pounds approx for a chicken burger bap thing but it was dressed in lettuce and seeds and had tomatoes and a lot of it I just couldn't eat. I also don't eat read meat so from a breakfast bar the only thing I can really have is eggs and toast. I don't want to queue either.

I'm bringing a packed lunch with me. To avoid the queues, to avoid paying for foods that I may not be able to eat until I see what's on the plate, to avoid the high costs and to keep reasonable well in myself too.

A breakfast bar or other stuff isn't going to cut it for me. It's full of sugar and it's not filling.

I have IBS and diverticulosis and sometimes that flares into an infection. I have loads of trigger foods that just leaves me sore and ill.

Yet you think there'll be loads of foods that you'll be able to snaffle from the breakfast buffet so that you won't have to pay for lunch?

Breakfast buffets are usually similar like breads and pastries and eggs and cheese.

You can get those in an airport.

But there's no point taking an empty tupperware for lunch snaffling. You might as well have the hassle of taking summat moist through security in it as well.

Yes, and they're provided for breakfast. Are you planning to ask the hotel if they're OK with you using them as a pack up service?

I might not do it either.

I will lbe bringing a packed lunch to the airport with a lunch box and all. I will use the lunch box again on holiday. I may not fill it up from a breakfast buffet. I don't know yet.

Do you really surreptitiously stuff scrambled egg and slices of cheddar into a Tupperware box for later when you’re on holiday?

The last time I was in an airport was in January and I swear the queues. I queued for ages and that was just to get to the counter to view it. Very little agreed with me. Another time we sat in a restaurant in the airport and ordered from a menu and I ended up with a bap or bread or something that was filled with seeds. Food is expensive too.

I'm bringing a packed lunch/breakfast to avoid/limit the queues at food counters and the prices and to make sure I have a proper meal that will agree with me.

So many shop bought sandwiches don't agree with me because they are often filled with loads of lettuce and tomatoes and sometimes even raw onion and that will make be sick.

No, you're right.

Actually I brought an empty lunch box before on holidays but I was on a cruise and I think that's likely different. I did fill be lunch boxes from the buffet on cruise. Thinking about this further I probably won't fill up from the hotels breakfast.

I regularly take a nail file and nail scissors in my hand luggage without ever having had an issue. Why would a fork be a problem?

No idea, but I've had one taken off me before, then had uneaten pasta salad kicking round my bag the rest of the day.

Problem might be that whilst nail files and small nail scissors are specifically listed as allowable the rules are silent on forks…so you are in the hands of whatever the security operatives decide on the day.

https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/personal-items

But the OP sounds resourceful and determined. I’m sure she could manage to eat a salad with an emery board and a pair of nail scissors.

Don't be silly.

But seriously it's a fork. How on earth can that be classed as a weapon?

Surely plastic cutlery would be ok. Like a plastic spoon and fork.

I don't see anything about a fork in this list. I see a spoon and a knife but no fork. A spoon is allowed but not a knife.

I wouldn't really need to bring cutlery. I can get them past security at an eatery.

I will bring a spoon or two and I may chance my arm with a plastic fork but I will get some past security.

Ah come on. Contraband breakfast buffet for lunch and taking cutlery from a café you're not a customer of at the airport?

Get yourself a plastic spork for your airport packed lunch and buy your own lunches on holiday. Please don't add anything more now op, I simply cannot resist CF bait.