Originally Posted by
GUWonder
The CBP usually doesn't care about cookies and crackers and packaged breakfast cereals, but it is food to be declared. More often than not, the agents won't care to send such persons to ag inspection after the passenger answers the question about what kind of food.
Precisely. You can enter with suitcases filled with chocolates, sweet meats, bottled pickles, etc, but if you have a pressing need to bring back Mum's home cooked Nihari, Kofta curry, achaar or paratha's, or even certain herbs and plants that only grow only in say the Indian sub-continent, you are going to have to use the process outlined earlier in this thread.