Can I ship baby food to Qatar?
My wife and 14 month old daughter will be joining me in Qatar next month. My wife has posed the question, can I ship Heinz cook at home sauces/stocks, baby cereals(Cow & Gate), etc.? Are there any restrictions on foodstuffs? Are these products readily available in country anyway?
We shipped cartons of milk powder for my 2 kids when we first arrived. If you want the ones with Taurine, Choline, DHA, etc. they don't have it here.
This May we also checked them in as luggage and we had no problem.
As for bottled baby feed, we didn't try that but brought in quite a bit of bottled sauces and packet pre-mixes and seasoning for making local dishes. Those passed the custom checks too.
Just try, no harm in doing so. In the worse case, let them confiscate. Actually, just tell them that your baby has special dietary needs. Oh... just make sure the bottles or packaging comes with the printed labels on them. That would be more than enough.
Actually there are so many changes for the baby to adapt to. Weather and climate being one and food being another. So my advice is bring over the bottled baby food (as much as you can). At least it will tide over for a period till things get settled down, then try the ones in the supermarket here.
I think they do Heinz here but I've never seen Cow and Gate/SMA or any of the recognised British baby foodstuffs. Theres alot of Nestle stuff but baby foods here are full of sugar and god knows what......best to get it shipped over or use homemade stuff, at least you know whats in it!
absoluta mente!
Andy, this is not the back of beyond. Most food that you can find in the western world is available here. Sometimes it vanishes from sehelves for weeks at a time, but that's mostly down to poor stock control, and people hoarding when a delivery of their favourite comes in.
They do have baby food here, but it's probably not the same brand you have in your country. You should be fine, otherwise, if they don't have what you want here, you can always order it online and have it shipped here. Or another option is have your family buy it and ship it here for you.
As long as you are not shipping anything with pork in it, I think you should be fine.