Dining before dessert party

[Rowab]

We are doing a HEA fireworks dessert party this trip. Really looking forward to it but just wondering what people do for dinner before etc?

Are the desserts enough for dinner? I was thinking maybe have a table service lunch - which we wouldn't normally do. Would desserts be enough for the rest of the day do you think?

 

[_auroraborealis_]

I would skip dinner or be very light, but understand also that the savory items at DPs are limited as well.

 

[JZCubed]

We are doing a HEA fireworks dessert party this trip. Really looking forward to it but just wondering what people do for dinner before etc?

Are the desserts enough for dinner? I was thinking maybe have a table service lunch - which we wouldn't normally do. Would desserts be enough for the rest of the day do you think?

HEA Dessert Party does not have much in the way of savory items to call 'dinner'.

There are two ways to look at your scenario (and fwiw, we are also attending a HEA Dessert Party soon):
1.) You will consume more than enough calories in desserts, that having even more calories at an earlier dinner could mean you are consuming too many calories in one day (i.e., more than the 'recommended' 2000 calories),
2.) If you have blood sugar issues (like me), then first consuming some protein is a way to minimize the sugar-spike that comes from consuming too many desserts. We happen to have an ADR for a quick bite at Be Our Guest for dinner (so I can have some meat protein) before the Dessert Party.

 

[GeorgiaHoo]

There's plenty of desserts, and they do a good job restocking, but they aren't particularly great desserts. We have a 4:00 reservation at Raglan Road the night we are doing the dessert party (which starts at 7:45, HEA at 9:00) and will head over to MK around 5:30 or so after we finish dinner. I certainly wouldn't plan on skipping dinner. I'm paying for the privilege of having a good view of the show without having to squeeze in somewhere or show up way early for a great location, not really for the quality of the desserts.

 

[hosler427]

For our dessert party day, I have a late lunch booked (1:45) at Be Our Guest. Planning on getting a small snack or splitting a QS. I wouldn't want to eat a full dinner and then go to the party but I wouldn't want to go from lunch time until the party without eating either.

 

[deedubb]

We are doing Skipper Canteen at around 5 pm on both of our dessert party nights. We find that going into the party starving can be dangerous, and you'll just leave feeling sick. If we're not very hungry, we can have 2 people share one dish at Skipper.