Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
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Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
We are going to be filling our container soon to send all our worldly goods over the pond to Canada. What will immigration say is we put some things like chocolate, cereal, baby food etc in there to tide us over till we find food the kids will like, and my wife (she is the fussy one ) will this be allowed?
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
hiya
we were told not to put any food in the container at all! was told the dogs at customs might sniff out the food and then your containier would be held up and opened.
We put a few bits in our cases that we needed for the first few days.
Someone on here may tell you different but thats the advice we were given by our shipping company.
Good luck
Lisa dd
we were told not to put any food in the container at all! was told the dogs at customs might sniff out the food and then your containier would be held up and opened.
We put a few bits in our cases that we needed for the first few days.
Someone on here may tell you different but thats the advice we were given by our shipping company.
Good luck
Lisa dd
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
hiya
we were told not to put any food in the container at all! was told the dogs at customs might sniff out the food and then your containier would be held up and opened.
We put a few bits in our cases that we needed for the first few days.
Someone on here may tell you different but thats the advice we were given by our shipping company.
Good luck
Lisa dd
we were told not to put any food in the container at all! was told the dogs at customs might sniff out the food and then your containier would be held up and opened.
We put a few bits in our cases that we needed for the first few days.
Someone on here may tell you different but thats the advice we were given by our shipping company.
Good luck
Lisa dd
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
All i kept thinking was it would be just my luck for our container to be opened and i really didnt want my stuff held up so we listened to the shipping company. Our container wasnt opened and we received our stuff very quick!
Good luck
Lisa dd
Good luck
Lisa dd
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
We put in a box or two of dried food stuffs (herbs and spices that we already had, left over unopened packs of pasta, etc, and then the newly-purchased salad cream, branston pickle and 24 tins of baked beans
Now then - our container was searched - but not specifically because of food - and the food caused no issues anyway .....
Now then - our container was searched - but not specifically because of food - and the food caused no issues anyway .....
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
Think ....
if a mouse could chew its way into the packet, or smell the food through the packaging
then you have risk of infestation on the trip over, be it mammal, insect or other
losing the food will be minimal, finding they/it/other made their home in the sofa expensive
So tins and jars should be fine, but boxes and sachets no so much
if a mouse could chew its way into the packet, or smell the food through the packaging
then you have risk of infestation on the trip over, be it mammal, insect or other
losing the food will be minimal, finding they/it/other made their home in the sofa expensive
So tins and jars should be fine, but boxes and sachets no so much
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
We are going to be filling our container soon to send all our worldly goods over the pond to Canada. What will immigration say is we put some things like chocolate, cereal, baby food etc in there to tide us over till we find food the kids will like, and my wife (she is the fussy one ) will this be allowed?
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
Oo er . No, i wouldn;t if I were you. We were told specifically NOT to put any food in the boxes. Any search by customs would be paid by us - with a starting rate of $500 - i would stick with your shippers advice!
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
yeh thats the advice we were given too!
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
2)I have not been to New Brunswick but I am fairly confident, in fact will probably bet a lot of money on the fact that there are shops that will be open during the day to 'tide us over'.
Why take the risk of all the problems listed above?
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
Two things come to mind, 1)what happens if you do not find food that the children like? Go back to UK? Starve?
2)I have not been to New Brunswick but I am fairly confident, in fact will probably bet a lot of money on the fact that there are shops that will be open during the day to 'tide us over'.
Why take the risk of all the problems listed above?
2)I have not been to New Brunswick but I am fairly confident, in fact will probably bet a lot of money on the fact that there are shops that will be open during the day to 'tide us over'.
Why take the risk of all the problems listed above?
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
Just a query on the tide us over bit -are you sending your stuff well ahead of you leaving? If not you will be waiting a good few weeks for yr stuff to turn up . . .
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
I am sure that the OP did think this through but sometimes some OP post questions without thinking through possible answers. That is why they post the questions to people like us. They want us to give honest answers and opinions on to the best course of action.
I would recommend to anyone wanting to avoid problems to not bring food over in containers which could get searched etc (like people in the above posts have mentioned).
I was also clearly pointing out that there are shops over in NB and like the post immediately above mentions, there could be a time delay with the delivery of the container.
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
Actually that was not me being really sarcastic, i can be much worse.
I am sure that the OP did think this through but sometimes some OP post questions without thinking through possible answers. That is why they post the questions to people like us. They want us to give honest answers and opinions on to the best course of action.
I would recommend to anyone wanting to avoid problems to not bring food over in containers which could get searched etc (like people in the above posts have mentioned).
I was also clearly pointing out that there are shops over in NB and like the post immediately above mentions, there could be a time delay with the delivery of the container.
I am sure that the OP did think this through but sometimes some OP post questions without thinking through possible answers. That is why they post the questions to people like us. They want us to give honest answers and opinions on to the best course of action.
I would recommend to anyone wanting to avoid problems to not bring food over in containers which could get searched etc (like people in the above posts have mentioned).
I was also clearly pointing out that there are shops over in NB and like the post immediately above mentions, there could be a time delay with the delivery of the container.
Perhaps this poster should follow your advice in a previous thread about pegging out washing and "just stay in the UK"
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Re: Putting food items In container with furniture, is this allowed?
And hello... please read the list of prohibited imports! Many foods are specifically not allowed.