Can I take a cool bag of quorn products in hand luggage?

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Wierd question i know! Going to Portugal, all veggie, fussy eating kids. Am I able to take a fabric cool bag with quorn products and ice packs on as a piece of hand luggage do you know?
Are there any restrictions on fresh foods?
Would be useful as obviously won't be able to get any out there!

Anyone know?..... thanks in advance

I'd have a bit of a search on the Quorn europe site - you can get it here in France now (much to my delight!) at certain large Carrefour's, I know Carrefour is in Spain, not sure about Portugal? Might even be worth a call to them if there's nothing obvious on their site?

This nightmare is the reason all our holidays are UK until DC will eat normal food. However I did find a European online supermarket that will do a courier package of cold food including Quorn, delivered to a holiday home - bit pricey and have to stay at home for the first day of the holiday waiting for the courier but it's an option.

I don't understand the need for quorn though. We aren't vegetarian but eat vegetarian probably half the week, never used quorn or whatever. If you use the basics found everywhere like veg, some carbs, dairy, beans etc making meals is simple enough.

Artandco what do you not understand about the fact that the OP's children are very fussy and won't eat most of the protein alternatives?

DD is a fussy eater. OH and I are not and will eat just about anything. It isn't for lack of trying on our part I can assure you.

But it's one week. They will survive without quorn protein for one week. You could eat chips for every meal for one week if you wanted and then just resume usual food on return and they would be fine. Travelling they don't have to have a completely balanced diet

You could indeed eat chips for a week. But my fussy eater generally only eats food he remembers eating within the last 3 days without a massive fuss. If he ate chips for a week we would be back to square one with all the painstaking work I have done to build up his range out of the window. No thanks. Pick one: (a) aren't you lucky to not have a fussy eater and have no idea what some of us go through (b) gosh you must be a marvellous parent, don't we just wish we could be as good.

C) or I just go with the flow. Kids change. They might do something unexpected

Why on earth would anyone what to eat chips for a week? I took Cauldron veggie sausages recently to Spain, with no issues. I packed them frozen. It was a short flight. so just put them straight in to the fridge as soon as we got to our apartment.

Quorn is great, as you man make things like chills and bolognese sauce, and just buy pasta and d rice over there.

Spanish and even French supermarkets are getting better at stocking veggie stuff although i've never seen quorn sold abroad.

Dutch supermarkets are pretty good as well. We went to Portugal a couple of years ago, but were hotel based, so didn't do much supermarket shopping.

Have a lovely holiday OP.

Well most people wouldn't. But if your a vegetarian and don't like fruit or vegetables or cheese or eggs then presumably your also the type who wouldn't mine bland bread or chips or whatever for a week.

Well i'm not vegetarian, but all the bland eaters I know are meat eaters not veggie or Vegan.

Isn't quorn the blandest possible food product? It tastes of absolutely nothing. Plain pasta I suppose is the nearest.