I'm curious what the ingredients are/what they are excluding (which ever way is easiest to answer that!) We have egg, soy, dairy, corn, carrot, blueberry, peanut and almond allergies in our crew.
Poor kiddos!
I'm curious what the ingredients are/what they are excluding (which ever way is easiest to answer that!) We have egg, soy, dairy, corn, carrot, blueberry, peanut and almond allergies in our crew.
Poor kiddos!
Once you know which of these mixes is safe you can contact the Special Diets department to find out which restaurants use which mixes.
For an egg substitute, some places use Ener-G's egg replaces (I believe it has corn) while others use apple sauce. This is another thing to ask Special Diets about.
For a milk alternative, some places use apple juice, some places use rice milk (most carry Pacific brand if you want to research it) and I think some may use water. Yet another thing to ask Special Diets about.
GAGirlInVA, I am also disappointed that special diets does not offer the help that they did before, but we haven't noticed much difference in dealing with DD12's allergies while there since the change. We are lucky that DD12 has top8 allergies and doesn't care much for desert and likes relatively plain food. I still get the best and most up to date information via my Disboard addiction.
Kouzzina had waffles. I think they were the Namaste, and they did charge extra for them (vs. a kid's meal price, one morning it was like $10 for a kid's meal waffle)
GAGirlinVA - The other thing that seems to be a bit different from before is they will give you specific information but not until right before the trip. They have put the chefs at the restaurants in charge of ordering so they can switch brands, add or take things away at any time. The "list" of items for each allergen is updated based on what they ordered not what they will order in the future... so if your trip is next week and you get a list today that list may be last weeks order. You know what they are likely to have sitting around in the cupboard but it's not a promise that they will stock it.
That seems to be why special diets doesn't really give out so much info anymore.
If you check off all of the allergens available when you make the reservation and get the special diets form (which you fill out with specifics such as ADR's) we've gotten a couple calls but for the most part the chefs knew we were coming. Some had prepared desserts or gotten things in advance.
Our counter service experiences have not been so great, but with TS we have had a lot of luck. DS is essentially top 8 free, but also won't eat carrots or blueberries and on our last trip over 2 weeks had maybe 3 meals that had corn in it. I think you would be surprised at how much they will accommodate your son.
Ooooo that is good to hear. I'm glad to hear that maybe some kinks have been worked out.We are toying with a 2014 trip... maybe if I update DH, he will feel comfortable again.
Did you happen to do a trip/dining report?
I started to do a report, but got sad that trip was over and it just sort of faded out.
Most places it worked out by asked for a type of meat or fish (the only major allergen he doesn't have) cooked in a pan with oil and seasonings. Then we would pick some veggies they had, sometimes a rice noodle. They seem to have a lot of ingredients, so unlike most places you end up could just make something without putting the corn in it in the first place. If your son eats fruit they usually have some fruit around too... my boys won't eat raw fruit.
We generally were offered the crunchy enjoy life cookies which my son can't have (buckwheat) and rice dream. Does rice dream have corn in it? I didn't think of that one.
We were rarely offered the crunchy enjoy life cookies. I was primarily offered the soft enjoy life cookies.
Was your son able to eat rice dream? My allergist doesn't want me to go near it because of cross contamination concerns.
We didn't contact special diets last time but I plan on it this time. I have about 18 allergies (not including raw fruits and veggies)....3 new ones just diagnosed a week ago after a series of reactions. We decided to stay at Saratoga springs in a 1 bedroom just in case we have food issues but they were so good with my allergies last time (Had about 13 of them) that I am confident we will be fine this time
When you went on the Dream, were you safely able to eat with all your allergies? any tips?When I had them in December they were free of all of that I think...not entirely sure about the corn but I think they were corn free.... I am allergic to:
Peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, shellfish, wheat, oats, coconut, soy, dairy, sesame, sunflower seeds, bananas, cherries, broccoli, honey, and ginger
I plan to enjoy these waffles every morning in June just like I did in December!
Do you remember where you got the soft ones? This has come up a couple times on various threads because nobody has offered us the soft. I contacted both Disney and Enjoy life and from what I can find, they have never made small packs of the soft cookies, even for special orders so if you had the soft- did the come out unwrapped? Or did they give you the big box? (I think it's a 12 pack?) I thought they had little packs of the soft ones but I've been told I was just mistaken. (I always feel like I'm crazy when this comes up, because I swear I've seen them) They make the crunchy in the big individual size and the little size that makes them look like the soft ones. I just flipped through our pictures and all the pictures I have are the bigger sized individual crunchy ones. I distinctly remember him getting a little pack at Biergarten that looked like they would be soft, but I also remember how happy DD was that our son couldn't eat them so she got to have a take away little pack of cookies for her purse.
He does ok with the rice dream because most of his reactions are mild and annoying - I'm also assuming it's cross contamination with gluten. Do you know what it is at risk for? Egg, peanut, pistachio and dairy have been his only scary reactions. The rest are skin bleeding and cracking so it's a general infection risk and it's not worth direct ingestion. If it's cross contamination for his scary things I will be reconsidering that one- he doesn't eat it at home anyways.
Do you remember where you got the soft ones? This has come up a couple times on various threads because nobody has offered us the soft. I contacted both Disney and Enjoy life and from what I can find, they have never made small packs of the soft cookies, even for special orders so if you had the soft- did the come out unwrapped? Or did they give you the big box? (I think it's a 12 pack?) I thought they had little packs of the soft ones but I've been told I was just mistaken. (I always feel like I'm crazy when this comes up, because I swear I've seen them) They make the crunchy in the big individual size and the little size that makes them look like the soft ones. I just flipped through our pictures and all the pictures I have are the bigger sized individual crunchy ones. I distinctly remember him getting a little pack at Biergarten that looked like they would be soft, but I also remember how happy DD was that our son couldn't eat them so she got to have a take away little pack of cookies for her purse.
The bolded is flat out wrong. Whomever told you this doesn't know what they're talking about. While in February and I think even the summer before that we only got the bigger crunchy EL cookies, in the past we've most definitely gotten those 2 packs of soft cookies. I haven't seen the individual packs at WDW in probably a year at least but they did definitely used to have them.
This picture was taken at CHH in August 2011.
This one was my dessert at HBD in August 2011. The chef also brought out a couple additional packages of the cookies so I know they weren't just from a big box.