We place an order with
www.gardengrocer.com before we leave home for next morning delivery. We have milk, cereal, poptarts, etc. in the room. (
Be sure to take some bowls - our boys had to eat out of the glasses in the room!) We then have an early CS lunch and dinner around 5:00. It works great for us!!
You can also order things like paper plates and disposable bowls from garden grocer. We never use them all up, but for $2 or so, it's so much more convenient. I also throw in a few basic housekeeping items, like a roll of paper towels and some baby wipes for cleanup. You can get plastic silverware, too, but I usually make do with what we get from the resort food court.
Back to the OP: The kids and I are usually in a hurry to get to a morning EMH, so we prefer just to grab a breakfast bar/juice/gogurt/leftover fruit from yesterday's lunch (ie, something portable, sometimes brought from home, sometimes ordered from garden grocer--try something they don't usually get at home to make it seem special). This way we a) get there while the lines aren't long and b) don't wake up dh, who likes to sleep in. Dh's routine is to sleep in, hit the resort food court for a breakfast sandwich, then meet up with us for lunch.
With the
DDP, we really had very little need for many OOP breakfasts. Dh would use a CS credit for his, then we'd usually share 2 or 3 credits for lunch. If the kids and I got hungry between our power bar breakfast and lunch, we'd use snack credits (Main Street Bakery was popular-2 Krispy Kreme's for 1 snack credit) or just munch on something out of mom's bag (if you have small kids, I'm sure you always travel with your own mini-grocery store anyway). If your kids are fairly young, but both on the DDP, you might find that they'll do well to share one CS breakfast and then share one CS lunch, supplementing lunch with some of mom and dad's meals.
One other thing to note--if your TS's are scheduled for 5:00, make sure you eat lunch early. A couple of times we got busy and didn't manage to slow down for lunch until after 1:00, which made eating again at 5:00 nearly impossible. Those CS meals are bigger than you'd expect. Good luck!
my family eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner. At Disney World there is no way we could eat 3 meals a day, we never do. We do breakfast and dinner usually. Sometimes we do an early lunch and a late dinner. The meals are usually way too filling to eat three. With a little snack midday if needed(and not always needed)-we are never hungry.
