Cheap breakfast ideas for in room before park?

[ssledoux]

We are going to be a group of 9 with several little ones. We are looking for cheap, creative ideas for breakfasts in our rooms (POP). We have a couple of early lunches planned in park, and a character breakfast for our off-park day, but we need some things to tide us over and don't want to spend money on breakfast every day.

Ideas?!?

 

[richmond282]

poptarts
cereal
pre-made biscuits

 

[holden]

I always either pack breakfast foods/snacks or ship a box to the hotel. Not sure what POP's policy is about shipping a box though...

Cereal bars/granola bars
small boxes of cereal (the kind I only let my kids eat on vacation...fruit loops, etc. we call them "vacation cereal")
milk that doesn't need refrigeration (we buy Horizon)

 

[wiigirl]

We always pack cereal and snack bars.

 

[ellie05]

We do bagels with cream cheese and coffee. We always have a car so we eat them on our way to the park.

 

[ssledoux]

I had thought of cereal, cereal bars, etc. Any ideas for easy proteins?

 

[kymom99]

Yogurt
string cheese
fruit
peanutbutter and bananas, apples, etc

 

[robinb]

Yogurt
string cheese
fruit
peanutbutter and bananas, apples, etc

I believe there is a toaster and microwave in the food court. You can also bring instant oatmeal and english muffins and prepare them in the food court.

 

[beffiegirl]

Protein bars for adults and a box of donuts for kids. Thats what we do. And we usually bring hot cocoa packets,but we usually stay at a villa.(microwave) Oh and trail mix!!

 

[pjlla]

For a few long weekend trips I have done this.....

pack a small electric kettle, instant oatmeal/grits/cream of wheat, individual fruit cups (pears, peaches, applesauce), instant coffee/tea bags/cocoa mix (and shelf stable creamer and sugar, if needed), disposable paper bowls and plastic spoons, paper coffee cups (with lids) and paper napkins. I have also packed homemade FROZEN muffins (in ziptop bags or vacuum sealed). I can get all of this, except the kettle, into a shoe box.

Then the first one up starts the kettle, then one showers while the other(s) eat, etc. Even the TINIEST rooms at the value resorts have a small table and chairs. We use the table as our "kitchenette" and neatly store everything on it so that the maids don't have to clean around our stuff (and so we aren't making any more work for the maid).

We have been able to have an inexpensive, relatively healthy, FAST breakfast with very little effort (and no long walk to the food court). And the disposable cups with the lids insures that we can take our drink along for the ride to the parks if we don't finish it. I used to include juice boxes when the kids were smaller, but they aren't needed now.... but are certainly an option!

The biggest drawback to this is the need to check a piece of luggage (partially because of the liquids and partially because of the extra space it takes up).... but the extra space in the suitcase on the return trip home is for the souvenirs, right???!!

You could also consider things that others have mentioned like granola bars, bagels, peanut butter, etc. Anything shelf-stable that can be made/eaten with a minimal of time and equipment and is still relatively healthy would be fair game in my mind!

Just be DOUBLE SURE to keep the kettle unplugged when not in use! Have a great trip!.................P

ETA: Yup, I am one of those "take a photo of everything" kind of people! Here is our breakfast set-up from this past May. It looks like I used a small priority mail box this time around. DD had two homemade (healthy) blueberry muffins (that obviously got a bit squished) and I had instant oatmeal, fruit, and a (previously frozen) Vitamuffin. Plus coffeee/cocoa for each of us. The M&M tube isn't for breakfast.... it's the coins for the pressed penny machines!

 

[Maggie Lizer]

Oatmeal with a spoonful of peanut butter mixed in. Good carbs and some protein. Keeps me going for a decent stretch of the morning.

 

[sweetdana]

We pack
Pop tarts, granola bars, gold fish (sometimes buy a cream cheese to dunk them in), fruit by the foot/fruit snacks, crackers and cheese, 1 big jar honey roasted peanuts, a small jar of peanut butter, few packs of mayo/mustard, individual oatmeal's, packs of raisins, bag of suckers, and few apple sauce squeeze ables.

we then buy at the resort market a loan of bread and a pack of salami (if a rental car then walmart).

We use these to make everything from PB+ Js/salami sammies or oatmeal + ras, ect and rarely eat breakfast at parks. prolly use this as well for 1-2 lunchs, late night snacks, an early dinner before a late dinner LOL.

I prolly spend 30$ ish .. and this covers about 15 (indivdu) breakfasts, 6 or so lunches, 20 or so snacks, and makes due when our ADR is not when our grumbly tummies are.

 

[Eureka]

I had thought of cereal, cereal bars, etc. Any ideas for easy proteins?

Dried fruit (raisins) if your kids like them?
We always just brought little boxes of cereal (the sugary kind I don't let them eat at home!) and granola bars, didn't worry about too much protein for breakfast because we got plenty of it later in the day.

 

[kristinradico]

What we plan to bring for in room breakfasts....
Protein/Cereal/Granola Bars
Yogurt
Cheese sticks
Donuts
Muffins
Apples/Bananas/Grapes

 

[Lisa0806]

We used garden grocers and even with delivery fee it still saved us alot of money over going to hotel to eat breakfast in morning! Also, saved us alot of time! We ordered yogurt, bread, peanut butter, bottled waters, milk, apples, and bananas. I also brought some Granola and Cheerios from home. I packed paper bowls and plastic spoons as well. So worth it, especially since my kids are used to eating first thing in the morning. Also, disney allows u to bring food and bottled waters into the park. So we brought the kids PB and J sandwhiches in case they were hungry and we werent ready to sit down for a meal.

 

[tina.tina]

If you're not happy with cheese sticks/peanut butter for protein, you could take the microwave bacon and use the microwave in the food court.

We took pop tarts, cereal, bread, pb&j, snack cakes, granola bars, chips, & fruit. (This was before there were refrigerators in the rooms.) Even though we had all this, the kids and I fell in love with Mickey waffles in the Pop food court!

Have a great time!!!

 

[ssledoux]

We adore the Mickey waffles as well! I think the main thing is that we really don't know how close we will be to the food court, and we don't want to wake the kids up so early. Anything we can do in the room insures that they can sleep in until the last minute! In addition, we usually drive to the parks (with the exception of MK), so they'll have time to eat on the drive as well.

For the adults, protein bars, coffee, etc. will work. We will also have little munchies for the kids to bring in the parks to tide them over between meals, and for the times they don't eat the meals well.

12 more sleeps! I'm getting TOO excited!

 

[crisi]

You can bring beef jerky. Or hard boiled eggs.

 

[scard192]

Instant oatmeal and we made in the running plain water through the coffee maker to get hot water

 

[kalynn]

Will you have a fridge? Kitchen?

Most packaged foods like muffins and cereal will work well. Yogurt, fresh fruit, fruit smoothies if you have a blender. If it gets cold, you could even do instant oatmeal. Just use the coffee pot to boil water (without coffee grounds of course).