Taking food into France

Take your first evening meal then go shopping.

Can’t point you to specific web site besides eu site. You could try uk.gov sites as well. But essentially no meat or meat products inc. tinned meat.  No dairy of any sort, inc. dried milk. There are some limits on fruit and veg as well. But I think that is fresh not canned. But you are ok with dried herbs for example.

There are several aspects of this. Firstly as we are a third country now we come under third country rules and in respect of foodstuffs it is all about food security for the eu now that we longer necessarily follow eu food rules. Secondly it is about checks on the eu side of the border. If you take “contraband” and it is discovered the most likely consequence is for it to be confiscated. There is first hand evidence on other forums of fridges being checked, although rarely.

I would just go by the uk.gov web site. If you get it wrong, the worst that can happen is the food will be confiscated. As ET points out, shop soon after you get there.

peedee

Good advice to follow uk.gov website. I am not sure why people are telling you to just go shopping, after you have explained your reasoning. We take basics like a wide range of spices and dried herbs, etc because I don't want to buy them all again - we take them in small containers, mostly mini jam jars, to save space. I am pretty sure that kind of thing is fine in terms of the new rules. Have a great trip.

More importantly have a full tank of fuel before you arrive

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We had the same reception as DD when we went to the Netherlands last year. Took a full fridge with our usual sauces/breakfast/tea/coffee etc and nobody batted an eyelid.

From all the anecdotal evidence on here, Facebook and other forums, it seems there are no reported incidents where people are checked, certainly going into France. Even if you were checked the worse that is likely to happen would be that the food would be confiscated, no fines or thrown into prison! One, of course, has to be sensible. If you ram your fridge/freezer full of bacon anyone checking could reasonably come to the conclusion that it was not for personal consumption and that might end differently? I think if there were incidences of people being checked and food confiscated that news would spread around the internet faster than someone saying they have been gassed on a Service Station! As with all risks you have to balance that against the likely consequences and make a decision.

David

From many previous posts here I thought that it was only likely to be a problem if you were taking pallet loads of the stuff with you. Personal consumption was deemed to be OK 🤷‍♂️

Do they not sell food in France??