Taking Food Ashore to Islands (For a Diabetic) South Pacific)

[Zanny]

HI, All I have a question i am going to go on a cruise with a friend and she is a diabetic and has to take some sort of food with her every where. My question is when you go to the islands etc. they say on the ship No food is to be taken off the ship)... As this has never concerned me before as i am fine was just wondering how all the other diabetics handle this situation.

She would probably need to pack some muesli bars and some jelly beans etc. There is no problem with getting a few letters from her Doctor here to take along. Any answers would be appreciated. Regards Zanny

[GUT2407]

HI, All I have a question i am going to go on a cruise with a friend and she is a diabetic and has to take some sort of food with her every where. My question is when you go to the islands etc. they say on the ship No food is to be taken off the ship)... As this has never concerned me before as i am fine was just wondering how all the other diabetics handle this situation.

She would probably need to pack some muesli bars and some jelly beans etc. There is no problem with getting a few letters from her Doctor here to take along. Any answers would be appreciated. Regards Zanny

 

 

Most places will let you take off factory sealed items.

[Aus Traveller]

You can take musli bars with you on the cruise and take these ashore. Likewise with barley sugar lollies. I don't know what ship you are going on, but often there are crackers in little sealed packets in the buffet area. These can be taken ashore.

[martin jenkins]

2 weeks ago at champagne bay we took 2 bacon and egg muffins ashore.

[MicCanberra]

Food (from the ship) is generally not allowed to be taken off the ship, best off with some pre-packaged food that you bring with you onto the ship which will be allowed off.

[Aus Traveller]

2 weeks ago at champagne bay we took 2 bacon and egg muffins ashore.

Oops. Sorry, but you should not have done that. You probably ate them yourselves, but food should not be taken ashore for biosecurity reasons. An exception can be made for processed and factory-sealed foods.

[MicCanberra]

Not sure of what the restrictions at Champagne bay are but yeah, food from ship is generally not allowed to be taken off.

I suppose being cooked food it would carry less risk than say raw foods like fruit and such.

[luvtrips]

We grab a couple of the little sealed boxes of cereal from the buffet. Hubby is also diabetic.

 

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[Gwendy]

As a diabetic, I stock up with packaged health bars, muesli bars, packs of tiny teddies! Avoid nuts and fruit packs as even though they are sealed, they may still cause issues. I have never had any problems taking these off the ship.

Please do not take fresh food onto islands. They are pristine places because they have not had introduced bugs etc.

[gorbeduck]

We keep fruit snacks or hard candy in the diabetes kit, never been questioned.

 

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[happysnapper]

2 weeks ago at champagne bay we took 2 bacon and egg muffins ashore.

Hope you don't do that again.

[Russell21]

Speaking as a Diabetic the only backup you ever need is Glucose jellybeans available at the chemist. A bit like the advice for a certain card, I never leave home without them. 3 or 4 of them will pull you out of a hypo in a couple of minutes, or if you have become familiar with the feeling before a hypo starts a couple of beans will avert it, and this is speaking from experience.

You will never have any restriction placed on taking them into any country, always declare them, particularly NZ.

[NSWP]

Hope you don't do that again.

 

Indeed a hanging offence OR at least 7 years penal servitude on Norfolk Island.:')

[Zanny]

HI, Thanks everyone for your answers. I am surprised that someone took bacon and egg muffins ashore. I hope you won't do that again on any future cruise as you get told many times and in the daily paper No food to be taken ashore. (this is why i posted my post regarding how you get on if you are a diabetic. Champagne Bay is my favourite place in the pacific i would hate the ships to stop going there. Thanks again Regards Zanny.

[MicCanberra]

HI, Thanks everyone for your answers. I am surprised that someone took bacon and egg muffins ashore. I hope you won't do that again on any future cruise as you get told many times and in the daily paper No food to be taken ashore. (this is why i posted my post regarding how you get on if you are a diabetic. Champagne Bay is my favourite place in the pacific i would hate the ships to stop going there. Thanks again Regards Zanny.

Glad we could help, we wish you all a great trip.

[Hogbay]

2 weeks ago at champagne bay we took 2 bacon and egg muffins ashore.

 

And that would be an infringement of Vanuatu Biosecurity Law .

Heavy penalty applies for infringement .

 

Vanuatu Department of Biosecurity

[robinph]

When we were on Explorer of the Seas in January they had a table set up before you dinged off and were checking peoples bags and confiscating food including pre packaged muesli bars and lots of the small packs of cereal from the buffet, it was amazing how much fresh food, fruit pasties etc that were there, they said it was being done under advice from the Vanuatu ports as a lot of food was being taken ashore. We have never seen this before or after, we were on the Voyager 2 weeks later and they didn't do it. It slowed up the disembarking process dramatically. Only did it at the Vanuatu ports not the New Caledonean ones.

[Beanb41]

Speaking as a Diabetic the only backup you ever need is Glucose jellybeans available at the chemist. A bit like the advice for a certain card, I never leave home without them. 3 or 4 of them will pull you out of a hypo in a couple of minutes, or if you have become familiar with the feeling before a hypo starts a couple of beans will avert it, and this is speaking from experience.

You will never have any restriction placed on taking them into any country, always declare them, particularly NZ.

 

It is not an issue taking such items ashore in New Zealand.

[Aus Traveller]

I doubt that there would be a problem taking 'jellybeans' ashore in any country. :)

[MicCanberra]

I doubt that there would be a problem taking 'jellybeans' ashore in any country. :)

Agreed.

[Jumpers]

My husband is type i I always take some lollies and bis never had and problems