OK so its no Dairy and meat, does anyone take food for the Doggy crew member. Mine is not refrigerated but in sealed cartons. Thinking of stowing some deep in the double floor locker space. Any thoughts? Anyone been searched lately, Talking to a Romanian Trucker today, they never check the truck fridge in his cab.. During the conversation he was saying that he never loads back out to the EU, Too much paperwork and hassle, and can spend up to three days at Ashford if the paperwork is wrong. How much are we loosing on that I wonder.
Permitted foods when travelling to France
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Are you sure you are aware of the new regulations? There are certainly no notices at the ports, and I or anyone else on here has been searched for food items (only immigration checks and checks that your gas is turned off).
If you are worried about it, don't take any contra-ban food with you.
If you are not, then you will be fine.
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We took our dog food over in a sealed 12 kg bag in the boot. We used salmon that time as there is an argument that it is permitted “fish” product. We were not checked and either have the many who replied to another thread on the same subject. This time I will still take the dog food sealed, but their regular chicken.
We just put dog food in the cupboard. 2 x 2.5 kg bags of dried kibbles. Nobody is interested in checking for food of any description its a made up story imo.
A customs bloke came on board rubbing his eyes it had been a long night looked in the toilet and garage and back in his van.
A customs bloke came on board rubbing his eyes it had been a long night looked in the toilet and garage and back in his van.
We are going to see some french friends next week,they love our pork pies
Where should I hide them?
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We brought all sorts of sealed things including milk for our coffee. At the ferry they didn't check anything 
in the fridge.We are going to see some french friends next week,they love our pork pies
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No checking at eurotunnel today
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Crossed 3 times this year with a full fridge each time, they don't even look. I would not even give it a thought
Why worry about taking anything, France has supermarkets too. Not only that, their quality is better than ours.
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If your taking stuff just put it in a cupboard as usual then if you were to be stopped you can just plead ignorance and offer to hand it over, this would probably lead to a friendly warning. Hiding stuff shows you know you shouldn't be carrying it and were deliberately breaking the law, much more serious. That just my opinion obviously.
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We have crossed into the eu 4 times since brexit was done and all we get asked is
1. Gas off
2. Do you have a pet
So I wouldn't worry about it
1. Gas off
2. Do you have a pet
So I wouldn't worry about it
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Dog food is the real problem. Particular brands do not seem to be universally available. We will take sufficient for our trip, usually around 30kg as the posted limits take no account of the size and number of dogs. This can then be replaced with wine on the return trip.Our food no problem. We will take what's in the home fridge to avoid chucking it, and otherwise buy abroad.
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Whilst on UK MH forums we laugh about gassing incidents in France, otherwise known as “how my Rolex and 5k cash was stolen”, I’m 99% sure that on French, Germany and Dutch MH forums they laugh about Brits getting caught with “the wrong dog food”
Just saying we may be over exaggerating this a tad, well other than that truck driver with the famous ham sandwich has this ever happened to anyone, just can’t see it.
Just saying we may be over exaggerating this a tad, well other than that truck driver with the famous ham sandwich has this ever happened to anyone, just can’t see it.
Just remember that whatever you take except for dietary foodstuff will generally be illegal. That is the law in Europe now. You will be on holiday, why start it by breaking the law, thinking it doesn’t apply to me. Just shop on arrival. If they do spot checks, I would have thought they will not stop at just looking for food stuffs if found, why have that hassle. Great supermarkets in France.
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We have found food to be fairly expensive in France compared to England, We eat out abroad but not every day, so we transfer food from our house fridge into the MH one as it would be a waste to throw it away only to buy a more expensive replacement
Lets face it the French don't exactly adhere to there rules do they!
It has got nothing to with the French not obeying the law, it is what happened when we left the EU. Whether you like it or not, it is the law. You either obey it or break it, if you do and get caught, maybe ii could cost you more than taking the contents of your freezer with you.
We have laws in this country too, do you look to break those also, because you don’t like them or that you don’t agree with them.
We have laws in this country too, do you look to break those also, because you don’t like them or that you don’t agree with them.
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When they are stupid, i try my best to ground around them.
Remember the saying in Brussels: Rules are for:
The South of Europe to ignore
The middle of Europe to go around
And the UK to follow and complain about
I guess though the UK found the ultimate way to bypass those though
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Ooooooooo goody, yet another food into France thread. I’m missing the gassing threads and toilet threads.
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If you have not travelled in the EU before they do have shops and supermarkets that sell some lovely foods and wines, quite a lot better than you can get in the UK.
When we had dogs they would eat anything, very quickly so there should be no problem on that front. The EU do dog food.
When we had dogs they would eat anything, very quickly so there should be no problem on that front. The EU do dog food.
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As said before entering the Uk I had a look in side door & rear door. open roof box 2,5" was considered sufficient for a "qui" . Even the bloke 2 behind I apoligised to for the time it took said they were pissing themselves especially when he said "qui" when i had barely raised the lid. It is all nonsense. leaving the Uk it would never occur to me to think about anything in the way of food. returning,The dog decided that his favoured sachets of food were needed in 40pack boxes along with half a cwt of dry mixer as it was all cheap. The wife bought multi packs of the wrong type long life milk that came back also.
As mentioned on another thread as soon as our resident cards were seen the whole lot was returned by the french without even being opened .Dog scan for chip was the only passport opened by the check in bloke.
As mentioned on another thread as soon as our resident cards were seen the whole lot was returned by the french without even being opened .Dog scan for chip was the only passport opened by the check in bloke.
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