Can I take Ella's kitchen pouches through heathrow security?

[Strawbs]

I'm seeing conflicting advice online so has anyone had any direct experience? Toby hates jar food and booths T3 only sells jar food (I've just called).. Thanks!

[Pickle]

I've taken them through before, no problem at all. At worst you'll have to open one and sample it, but I've never had this. If they kick up a fuss explain how far you're travelling. I've also taken jars in the past, and there's no reason why they should be viewed any differently, it's all baby food.

Safe travels x

[KatsuQueen]

I've just flown on a long haul flight out of Heathrow and had to open half of the food I had with me, which was mainly Ella's pouches and milk in cartons. It was a total pain as we were struggling with two very grumpy kids and all their associated kit! At least with the Ella's pouches you can screw the lids back on after tasting a bit.

The officer at Heathrow made me open 3 precious cartons of Aptamil (precious as we can't buy it where we were going). We had to try and rip them open as we didn't have any scissors (not allowed to bring through, we thought) and pour them into our sterilised bottles. The officer saw how we were struggling and "helped" by unscrewing the lids of the bottles for us, unfortunately she then put the bottle lids with teats on the filthy counter. I couldn't bear to use the bottles when I saw that there were hairs stuck to the bottle screwtops. yuck.

Luckily I had also brought some disposable sterile bottles with me as a final worst case backup. But then spent flight anxious about whether I had enough bottles....

To be honest I may be making a bit of a drama about it but at the time it was a total nightmare! My littlest is 5 months so sterilising is not the biggest worry compared to a newborn say, but still... Aarrghhh.

[nymom]

I have taken them on multiple long haul flights with no problems.

[Belle]

argh katsuqueen that sounds awful!! how annoying. and how totally extreme of them - it's irritating that they are so inconsistent. I know in theory they can test 50% of what you take through but I'd have thought they'd appreciate at least the sterile bottles bit. As you say, sterility itself maybe not the issue but minging hairs stuck on bottle tops most definitely not on...

I've taken ella's on loads of flights without having to taste but I think that's because I've never thought to declare them, oops! I just reasoned to myself that they are weighed in grams rather than mls...

[Strawbs]

Just to be safe I've picked up some plum 100gm ones and I've booked in to the airpor lounge so I can fill his bottles with 4oz of boiling water which I'll let cool and then get the hosties fill up the remaining 2 with boiling and got myself a couple of slimline powder dispensers.

I thought I had packed light but I've got my carry on plus a large and small backpack that connect which I'll check but that has a combined weight of 27kg!!! If I haven't lost a few pounds after lugging that around for 3 weeks I'll give up and embrace the left over baby weight hahaha..

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