Turkey can fit in your carry-on, but you need to watch the gravy.

The busiest travel days of the year are upon us, and the TSA is anticipating what could be its busiest Thanksgiving travel season on record. If you’re bringing food to your Thanksgiving feast, you should know in advance which holiday foods are allowed on flights.

The last thing a traveler wants to hear after waiting in a long line at airport security is that their homemade cranberry sauce has to be in a checked bag.

“If it is a solid object, it can pass through a checkpoint,” Transportation Security Administration officials said in a news release Wednesday. “However, if you can spill, spread, spray, pump or pour it and it is larger than 3.4 ounces, then it should go in a checked bag.”

And what about the items that need to be kept cool?

Frozen goods are allowed on flights, as are ice packs, but they must be frozen solid when passing through security. When your glazed ham thaws at the airport, it may end up in the dumpster along with fellow passengers’ half-full water bottles and oversized liquids, gels, and creams.

Food may also be subject to additional security screening and should be stored in an easily accessible location in your carry-on luggage. The TSA also urges travelers to store their food properly to avoid foodborne illness.

Here’s a list of Thanksgiving dishes that travelers can take as carry-on luggage, as well as dishes that should be safely stored in checked luggage.

Oh, and many of the same rules apply to any leftovers you fly home with.

Thanksgiving foods that can be carried through TSA checkpoints

• Baked Goods: Homemade or store-bought cakes, cookies, brownies, and other sweet treats
• Meat: turkey, chicken, ham, steak. Frozen, cooked or uncooked
• Filling: Cooked, uncooked, boxed or bagged
• Casseroles: Traditional green beans and onion straws or something more exotic
• Mac ‘n Cheese: Cooked in the skillet or travel with the ingredients to prepare at your destination
• Fresh Vegetables: Potatoes, yams, broccoli, green beans, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, turnips, radishes, carrots, pumpkin, greens
• Fresh fruit: apples, pears, pineapples, lemons, limes, cranberries, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, kiwi
• sweets
• Spices

Thanksgiving Foods to Pack Carefully in Your Checked Luggage

• Cranberry Sauce: Homemade or canned are spreadable, so check
• Sauce: Homemade or in a jar/can
• Wine, champagne, sparkling cider
• Canned fruits or vegetables: There is liquid in the can, so check it
• Jams, Jams and Jellies: They are spreadable so it’s best to check them
• maple syrup

To see if unlisted meals can fly, be checked, or neither, travelers can check the TSA “What Can I Bring?” page. Tool or inquire @AskTSA on Facebook Messenger or X, formerly known as Twitter.