what to bring to eat?????

[tinkerjess]

we decide to go w/ the reg. dp because it was $400 cheaper and i dont think just breakfast and one more snack would cost us $400 for 4 days:confused3 well what kind of breakfast stuff do you bring? im not sure if i should rent a fridge from pop? also what kind of snacks do you bring for the kids? mine are ds:cool1: -9 ddprincess: -3 !! this will be our first trip so any help would be a huge thanks:flower3:

[erinr24]

One thing that we are going to bring are Special K bars. My husband and I love them and they are actually pretty filling. You can eat them on the fly. I think they are like 3 bucks for 6 of them or something like that.

[Gomez Gang]

I would bring granola bars, boxes of raisins, fruit snacks, bottles of water, nuts, cranberries, and any cereal type bar. They are non messy and some are quite filling. Since kids like to just have fries, chocolate milk and pop on vacation, they don't always eat as much fruit as they normally would. If you carry dried fruit, it will help the little ones stay regular....if you know what I mean!:goodvibes

[BeckyScott]

You could also pack juice boxes or Parmalat, and put them on ice in your room. I'm not sure how much a milk from the food court would cost, if Parmalat would be cheaper or not, though, but it would be easy enough to find out.

It's also possible you'll have leftovers from dining plan, probably from dessert, half a cookie here and there, which will work for hotel room snacks.

I am thinking just to take some boxes of cereal, since that's what the kids usually eat for breakfast anyway. I don't know what they'd do with 3full-blown huge meals a day.

[ChristaDeVil]

We're doing the same thing, at POP. We're not renting a fridge, because most of what we need to keep cold (i.e. beer and Capri Suns) can go in a cooler. We're driving, so we're bringing a cooler with us. I'm planning on bringing Special K Bars, dry cereal (DS eats cereal-no milk-every morning), some of those 100 calorie packs of chips...basically the same things that we keep on hand for snacks and quick breakfasts at home!

[twinnersmama]

We are also staying at POP and not renting a fridge. I am taking those snack pack size boxes of cereal, applesauce cups (and spoons), teddy grahams, pretzel rods, and dried fruit

I THINK I read that POP has a microwave and a toaster in the food court that you can use for your own food ... bagels, english muffins, etc.

[D&DDisney]

If you have a car, the near-by grocery stores sell individule containers of cereal for 2/$1.00.
We saved a bundle doing this vs. buying cereal on the grounds. ($2.00 per container):scared1:

[sherabby]

My son has food allergies and I really didn't know what to expect about the food courts. We did discover that he could eat very safely there though and that a chef prepared his mickey waffles separate from ours with special ingredients.
We did pack a box of food supplies and mailed it down to the resort so that we didn't have to take it on the airplane. We ended up not needing much of it though...maybe the cereal for my son in the am hours. We told Housekeeping to take all of our snacks because most of it was never even opened.

[disneydad78]

Here is what we do, and it saves us money for character dinning and better dinner meals.
We have a condo that has full kitchen, I know yall think im crazy but we stay at Bonnet Creek Resort, which is not a WDW resort, but you can see epcot and fireworks at night from your room. Anyway, we go to wal-mart in Kissimmee buy eggs, bacon, pancake mix,, eat big breakfast in morning before park opens. We bring our kids backpacks that theY used during school. We fill them with bottled waters and snacks. We save the bottles to refill at resort. We buy powder gatorade mix,then freeze. We freeze half and chill half. We buy bread and sandwich meat, make them and put them next to frozen drinks in backpack.We carry 2 backpacks I carry one since Im the dad, and everyone takes turns with the other,if you dont over load, it ok. We bring a couple snacks and we are good to go.We even have room for camera,etc.Chilled drinks we drink first,throw those bottles in trashcan, during the day the Frozen drinks thaws out and we have gatorade!I keep acouple of those bottles for next day,when I get back to room I mix gatorade for next day! Eat sandwichs, at lunch, by that afternoon bag is empty.Then you have room for what ever you buy at disney, we buy soviners before we leave. This helps us save money, so we can spend more at better dinner dinning.:cool1: They check our bags, they never care that we bring food,,thats one more thing I love about disney.:yay:

[disneydad78]

Is the food good at the Sci-Fi in DHS?

[disneydad78]

:confused3

[tinkerjess]

:thumbsup2 thanks everybody!!!!!

[holly7347]

One thing that we are going to bring are Special K bars. My husband and I love them and they are actually pretty filling. You can eat them on the fly. I think they are like 3 bucks for 6 of them or something like that.

My youngest loves the vanilla ones. We will be bringing a couple boxes of those, some pop tarts, some slim fast bars (both my DD's love the chocolate chip ones, they are great for breakfast full of vitamins), individual bags of pretzels, goldfish, 100 calorie packs etc.

Oh I just thought of something else I plan to take. Neither of my DD's are huge water drinkers and I don't want them to get dehydrated so I am also going to take some of those individual sized powder packets that you add to flavor your water. Probally some Crystal Light and some Kool Aid ones. Then we can take the refillable mugs with us into the park and fill them at water fountains and add the kool aid.

[amykay9377]

we decide to go w/ the reg. dp because it was $400 cheaper and i dont think just breakfast and one more snack would cost us $400 for 4 days well what kind of breakfast stuff do you bring? im not sure if i should rent a fridge from pop? also what kind of snacks do you bring for the kids? mine are ds -9 dd -3 !! this will be our first trip so any help would be a huge thanks

I'm so glad I wasn't the only CRAZY one to NOT do the DP! I felt like such a rebel!

Anyway, we just got back from WDW last week. Here is what I brought/here is what we ate--marked with an * (yes, I always overkill on variety):

*Handi-Snacks
Snack Pack pudding
*Cracker Packs (Lance)
*Oreos
*Peanuts
*Beef Jerky
*Granola Bars
*Entenmann's Donuts
*Water/Soda/Juice
*Frosted Flakes & Milk (see below)
*OJ
Pretzels/Cheesy Doodles/Chips (more for the drive up/back)
Quaker Rice Cakes Caramel Corn (SO TASTY!!!)
Crystal Light to Go
**We froze the milk before we left and put in our cooler--we ate the donuts til they were gone, and then by then the milk had thawed, so we could have cereal!

For us, vacations don't involve (really) eating all we can. We did lunch/dinner at POP on Monday, we went out to Ponderosa Buffett on Tuesday (Don't do it! It was so bad!), ate at Columbia Harbour House on Wednesday and the ABC Commisary on Thursday. For the rest of our meals we ate what we had in our bags or in our rooms. For four days, we spent under $200 for food for all three of us. And the best part--all the snacks we didn't eat on vaca, we bring home and have a kitchen full of junk food!!! :banana: That doesn't happen very often at our house...

[toledo13]

we like to bring pb and honey sandwiches, apple sauce cups, fruit leathers, trail mix, fiber one bars, juice boxes/bottled water, etc. we can have these for breakfast or take them to the parks.

[MickeyNicki]

For breakfast we bring oatmeal and use the coffee pot to heat the water, cereal and buy milk (bring bowls from home), breakfast bars or Slim Fast bars.

Snacks are crackers, animal crackers, pretzels, gummy bears, granola bars, 100 calorie pack items from Nabisco are great, dried fruit, nuts.

We bring a case of water, sometimes 2, and Crystal Light mix ins

[WDWRocksMySocks]

I THINK I read that POP has a microwave and a toaster in the food court that you can use for your own food ... bagels, english muffins, etc.

Yep, they do!

We usually stop by the grocery store and pick up a few things (milk, cereal, lunch meat, etc...). Last year, we drove and my sister packed her George Foreman grill. Let me tell you, this was genius! We cooked bacon and sausage on it and never once ate breakfast in the food court.

[JonS99]

Anyone ever try cooking eggs in a microwave?

[Octoberbabiesrus]

I'm going to be bringing, peanut butter crackers, Some of our fave oat and honey granola bars, etc. Stuff with plenty of protein, A) for the diabetic , me and B) to keep our energy flowing.

[Octoberbabiesrus]

Anyone ever try cooking eggs in a microwave?

Like Scrambled? Or over easy? yes. DONT put WHOLE eggs in hoping for hard boiled. NOT gonna happen!!! They will explode.

Store like Bed Bath and beyond sell a lil dish that makes eggs over easy or hard a sinch to make.

[baj0505]

In addition to the cereal bars, packages of crackers, individual crystal lite drink mixes, we also brought microwave popcorn packages that came in quite handy. We always go back to the room in the afternoon and head back out in the evening to see the fireworks. We would pop it and put into a large ziploc bag and carry in to the park to eat while we watched the fireworks. Also I brought a ziploc bag of some assorted candy that didn't melt (skittles, pop rocks, blow pops) - yes soo healthy NOT, but its vacation and last time the kids drove me crazy every time we went into the Disney Store or Marketplace they ended up wanting a $2 candy bar. Each day before leaving for the park they picked out one item to carry with them for treat after lunch or while watching an afternoon parade. I also found Disney Pez dispensers and bought a refill pack of Pez's--so one day this was their 'treat'. I know this isn't the most healthiest food to take with you, but it is vacation, and it allowed me to have some portion control on sweet stuff and didn't break the bank.

[teag_98]

we decide to go w/ the reg. dp because it was $400 cheaper and i dont think just breakfast and one more snack would cost us $400 for 4 days:confused3 well what kind of breakfast stuff do you bring? im not sure if i should rent a fridge from pop? also what kind of snacks do you bring for the kids? mine are ds:cool1: -9 ddprincess: -3 !! this will be our first trip so any help would be a huge thanks:flower3:



:goodvibes Your post could have been written by me! We too considered the DDP and decided against it, and I have a 9 yr old DS and 3 yr old DD, and it's our first trip!! They only diff. is that we're staying at ASMo.

Thanks for posting this question, there's some great ideas here!:dance3:

[tinkerjess]

cool:thumbsup2 when are yall staying?

[pjwelch]

Yes. First kind were scrambled. Mix same as usual put in bowl and stick them in MW. Can't remember how long may be a minute to minute and 1/2. They fluff up quite a bit so make sure you have room in bowl.
We also have a little tupperware gadget that cooks eggs in the MW. There are two compartments in it. One per egg. You spray "bowl" with oil, put in one tspn of water, crack the egg and put the egg in the "bowl", take a toothpick or something similar and poke it through the white and yolk. Seperately of course. Put the cover on and MW for about 1 1/2 minutes. They're not bad, but they aren't as good as done in a frying pan. Try out at home before you go.

[Joolish1313]

We went in October for our honeymoon. We brought the mini-cerals already in the bowl, plastic spoons (bought milk for cereal & coffee), assorted granola bars, peanutbutter crackers, and pretzel sticks. We leave tomorrow :woohoo: YAY for Disneyland. I added raisins and cheese crackers. The small packs of PB and cheese crackers are great for any time of day. We've tried the mix-ins (both crystal lite and gatorade) for our bottle water; they don't always work out but it's worth a shot.

[leagirl12]

We are going in June and staying at POP. We are ordering bottled water from Costco's and having it shipped to the resort. We were going to rent a fridge but hated the thought of the cost....I found a fridge swap on the budget board and now we have a fridge for our stay and it's FREE!!!!!!!

You should check out the board and see if you can find a swap (there are a good bit of them) that you can get in on during your stay.

[karibritt01]

If you rent a fridge: gallon of milk, cheese sticks, and gogurt are great to have around. Without the fridge: rice krispy treats, goldfish, peanuts or cashews, pop tarts. We had a fridge, so the kids had cereal w/ milk every morning. The pop-tarts and krispy treats we threw into the bag for the parks. The kids would eat the cheese and gogurts on the way to the bus. The goldfish and nuts were the first things they went for in the evening.

[Tray c]

Anyone ever try cooking eggs in a microwave?

Yes. We have scrambled eggs in microwave. Because every microwave is different., you need to make sure you watch it carefully.

[Tray c]

OH!! I found individual cereal in plastic bowls rather than the boxes at Target. So we won't have to worry about bringing bowls. :woohoo:

[tinkerjess]

where can you find the cereal in the plastic bowls? i would like to buy some. tried target and they didnt have them.

[Tammysue5]

We are taking uncrustables (PBJ) Kids love them and they travel easy!