Toddler Food - What's Allowed?
Jul 25, 2010, 9:14 pm
#31
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I agree...the key is reasonable quantity. One time without my knowledge, my wife packed a bunch of liquids for an hour flight from PHX to LAS...the TSA confiscated most of it. That was the only flight that the TSA confiscated liquids from us.
The keys are 1) putting all of the liquied for your child (or children) in one bin; 2) if questioned, be prepared to responded back with "our flight is four hours long, we are two hours early, who knows if our flight will be late sit on the tarmac for a few hours...our son needs to eat and drink"; 3) if initially rejected, be nice and ask for a supervisor...it has been our experience that TSA agents that are childless do not have a clue and a supervisor will approve your liquids IF is of reasonable quantity.
The keys are 1) putting all of the liquied for your child (or children) in one bin; 2) if questioned, be prepared to responded back with "our flight is four hours long, we are two hours early, who knows if our flight will be late sit on the tarmac for a few hours...our son needs to eat and drink"; 3) if initially rejected, be nice and ask for a supervisor...it has been our experience that TSA agents that are childless do not have a clue and a supervisor will approve your liquids IF is of reasonable quantity.
Jul 26, 2010, 12:40 am
#32
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Tried all of the above with the 32oz milk mentioned above and still got one 8 oz box confiscated. Claimed that the flight was 5.5 hours long, at the airport an hour early, flight could be late, asked for a supervisor, and no dice. Answer was that the quantity was supposed to be based on the scheduled length of the flight only and that was that.
Kids Health, http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/nutrition/feed12yr.html#, recommends that a parent should limit their child's milk intake to 16 to 24 full ounces.
The pediatrician for our son recommended 3 glasses of milk when he was between 18-MO and 24-MO.
Jul 26, 2010, 8:49 am
#33
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Unless your prediatrician recommended 32 oz of milk every six hours (which you should have in writing on doctor's letterhead), 32 oz of milk is a lot of milk. I did a quick Google search and it seems like that 16 to 24 full ounces of milk is what what most doctors recommend.
Kids Health, http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/nutrition/feed12yr.html#, recommends that a parent should limit their child's milk intake to 16 to 24 full ounces.
The pediatrician for our son recommended 3 glasses of milk when he was between 18-MO and 24-MO.
Kids Health, http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/nutrition/feed12yr.html#, recommends that a parent should limit their child's milk intake to 16 to 24 full ounces.
The pediatrician for our son recommended 3 glasses of milk when he was between 18-MO and 24-MO.
BTW, the link appears not to be working...
Aug 1, 2010, 10:12 pm
#34
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It turned out to be fairly difficult given where we were staying and she eventually needed to drink non-organic milk while we were there, which disappointed me greatly.
Aug 3, 2010, 5:30 pm
#35
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Tried all of the above with the 32oz milk mentioned above and still got one 8 oz box confiscated. Claimed that the flight was 5.5 hours long, at the airport an hour early, flight could be late, asked for a supervisor, and no dice. Answer was that the quantity was supposed to be based on the scheduled length of the flight only and that was that.
Oct 30, 2010, 11:36 am
#36
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Juice confiscated at DFW for our 2 yr old.
Flying CUN-DFW-FAT last week, we had 4 juice boxes packed separately. At Cancun, they made us throw away 2 for the 2.5 hr flight, which we understood. At DFW, an agent confiscated the remaining 2 boxes. When we asked why, she said juice boxes weren't allowed for our child. When we called over a supervisor, she asked how old our child was. We replied not quite 3 (our child is normal height and weight for her age). The supervisor said juice boxes were allowed for infants only. We were able to buy 2 bottles of juice (at nearly $10) near our gate pre-departure.
Besides the TSA verbiage cited earlier, is there anywhere else the rules (as in definitions of a toddler) are printed?
*edit* A TSA rep called at 7:30 AM pst after I posted a suggestion on the web to at least have an age recommendation on juice being a toddler - he said it is always an on-the-spot call, and since kids dont normally travel with ID (which every kid should have while traveling on an int'l itinerary) it could become a sticking point. He also mentioned that by the time any changes were made, the rules might change re: liquids anyway.
Besides the TSA verbiage cited earlier, is there anywhere else the rules (as in definitions of a toddler) are printed?
*edit* A TSA rep called at 7:30 AM pst after I posted a suggestion on the web to at least have an age recommendation on juice being a toddler - he said it is always an on-the-spot call, and since kids dont normally travel with ID (which every kid should have while traveling on an int'l itinerary) it could become a sticking point. He also mentioned that by the time any changes were made, the rules might change re: liquids anyway.
Last edited by jumpdogjump; Nov 4, 2010 at 8:13 am