Do you use the kitchen?

[lsutigger2]

Another breakfast fixer here! Love being able to eat before leaving for the day/morning. One thing I do when we are going for 7/8 days/nights and staying in a 1 bdrm, is to bring (we drive for those trips) frozen "meals" from home that I've prepared ahead. Stuff like spaghetti sauce, chili, jambalaya, beans & rice, etc, etc freezes well and when I fix it close to a WDW trip, I make extra and bring some along. Then we pick up "extras" salad, bread, etc at the grocery once we arrive at WDW. Pop the meal in the microwave and you have a home cooked meal! You can even throw the containers away if you want. DH and I get "tired" of park food and we usually don't go to many of the restaurants. It is just our style. And this is what works for us.

One of the greatest things about DVC is the flexiblity!

 

[goofy4dvc]

Breakfast: we eat in the room. This might be cold cereal, toasted bagels or english muffins.

Lunch: we eat out. If it's a park day, we eat at the parks. If it's a day we are going on a day-trip, we eat wherever we are.

Dinner: we eat sandwich stuff in the room about half or more od our days there. Some evenings, we eat out.

 

[July]

Yep, I cook. That's why I bought DVC. To save money on the dinning out all the time..
I enjoy the occasional trip out.
While over at VB. I cooked the entire trip. We only ate one breakfast out.

July

 

[DiznEeyore]

For our family, the kitchen is one of the best parts of our DVC accommodations!! We are picky eaters with sensitive stomachs that can handle just so many "Mickey meals" before they revolt, LOL!

We always buy milk, juice, water bottles, lunchmeat, breakfast stuff and things for a quick dinner or two.

When we went w/our extended family in Dec. '01, my bil grilled steaks on his tailgate in the WL parking lot -- all the valets were going crazy for the smell!! Once they were done, he and my mil made a wonderful steak salad for us up in the villa. It's still one of our favorite dinners ever at Disney.

 

[kweaver]

I love having a kitchen in the villa so that we can bring home leftovers from dinners at all of the great restaurants and reheat them for lunch the next day! If we didn't have this option, DH and I would share dinners a lot because of the huge portions. Nothing wrong with that...we love doing it, but we don't always want the same thing.

 

[RuthnPaul]

Originally posted by kweaver
I love having a kitchen in the villa so that we can bring home leftovers from dinners at all of the great restaurants and reheat them for lunch the next day! If we didn't have this option, DH and I would share dinners a lot because of the huge portions.

Great use of the kitchens in the DVC resorts! Until this year when we will be taking our first trip home as DVC members, we've stayed in the resorts (no fridge). In particular, I remember a meal at Whispering Canyon Café last year where they served so much food that there was absolutely no way we could even begin to eat half of it! Without having a way to keep it cold and reheat it, it ended up in the garbage -- what a major waste!

 

[jarestel]

We do breakfast & lunch in the room. We find it's way more convenient to whip up bacon & eggs in the room ( saving about $75/day in the process ) than rushing everyone to a restaurant to eat before the parks open. Since we always return to the room for an afternoon swim, lunches are generally done in the room also. ( saving another $50/day or so in the process ) Normally, we will eat out for dinner every night using the money saved from breakfast & lunch.

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

As with many others, we always do breakfast except for an occasional Character B-Fast and we sometimes do lunch. We keep lots of drinks and snacks in the kitchen. Just doing that saves us a ton of money.

HBC

 

[living la vida mickey]

We always do breakfast even when we're staying in a studio. Keep soda and water in the refrigerator all the time. That's a major money saver. When we've been down for an extended trip (9-12 days) in a 1 or 2BR, I've been known to cook. Our DS went to college in Orlando and 2 years ago my mom and dad and I went down to see him for his b'day and stayed at OKW. We invited DS and a few of his friends over for the day and had a b'day party for him in the villa. To see those boys' faces when they walked into to the villa and smelled a home cooked meal was priceless. They had a blast swimming and then coming back for Italian sausage sandwiches, Pastitsio (Greek lasagna which by the way took every pot and pan in the kitchen to make) salad, fruit salad, and cake and ice cream. I love my DVC!!!