Easy food to pack?

[twinkletoesmom]

We are going to wdw for 8 days, we are staying at pop w/ no fridge. I'm trying to think of easy food (esp. brekfast food & semi healthy food) to pack.
I've thought of canned fruit, apples, bagels, bread, peanut butter and those small packs of jelly for PB&Js granola bars & small cereal boxes. Anyone have anything else good to add to this list? I plan on putting all the food in a small suitcase (so I'm not worried about not having room) then on the way home I have an empty suitcase for all the fun things that we bought. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[1-AlterEgo]

trail mix

 

[VistaLeigh'smommy]

I always bring PB and then just buy the bread at the food court for like 35 cents each and then use the jam packets that disney supplies!

 

[5fordisney]

I've been thinking about the same thing, esp. for breakfast and snacks. On my list so far are cereal and oatmeal bars (so no bowl, spoon, or milk needed), fruit snacks (my kids could live on these!), dried fruit (my kids are allergic to nuts otherwise nuts and trail mix would be on my list too), and maybe pop-tarts. I may add apples to my list too.

 

[mossy1]

Homemade rice crispy treats or the like pack well in plastic wrap. Also small boxes of raisins do well and don't forget bannanas if room in your pack is not a issue.

 

[CapeCod53]

I always make 2 different "nut" breads, 1 always banana(no nuts) with mini choco chips & double wrap them in saran wrap & alum foil, unsliced. Along with little boxes of cereal these will make breakfast & a sweet treat at the end of the day. Whenever we stay without a kitchen I also bring a hot pot (under $10) to make tea & hot chocolate (I detest coffee, so will never use a in room coffee maker to heat water, all I taste from those is coffee). Also to bring as snacks into the parks, granola bars, peanutbutter crackers & twizzlers.

 

[twinkletoesmom]

Great ideas, Thanks everyone!!!I will definately do trail mix. I never thought to bring baked bread!!! I always bake bread!! there will be a few loafs in our suitcase and I can't believe i was going to forget poptarts not for the kids but for me ( I could live on the low-fat cinnamon ones) Thanks again!!! Anymore other great ideas out there?

 

[UP Disney]

We like to take the individual crackers & cheese packs. We've also taken the cheese in a spray can (can't remember what it's called) before with crackers. We take the crackers for the peanut butter as well.

 

[HappyCamperToo]

How about rice cakes, and cereals that can be eaten w/o milk (like kix or cheerios).

 

[momamy]

We take things like fruit roll ups, those little cups of cereal just add milk and plastic spoon at the food court or even eat them dry! Cereal bars. and of course cookies for mommy my dd likes those dole fruit cups!

Amy

 

[ENSOCK]

I am planning on getting the otis spunkmeyer muffins in a box. You can get a box of small muffins. My kids love the chocolate ones. Those and the cereal bars.

 

[pooh2001]

What we have packed - cereal (even works for a light dinner after a large buffet lunch), pop tarts, gum, dried fruit ...

But the idea of fresh baked bread - never thought of that.
I make banana bread my family loves - gone with in 3 days.
I could make it - wrap it as suggested (double saranwrap) - but I will also try to find a 'throw-away' tupperware container. Then no bread smell will leak out to find any 'critters' in the room.
If I get a decent good tupperware - then I guess I could pack socks in it on the way back - or some Disney trinkets my kids collect.

We take a car service from MCO with a 30 minute food store stop on the way to the resort. We buy water bottles and some fresh fruit (apples, banana's, oranges) to have in our room also.

 

[reader]

Trail mix. Luna or other protein bars. Apples & peanut butter. Hummus with mini pita breads & baby carrots. (running to the buses breakfast was often the individual packs of carrots opened up with a couple of spoonfuls of hummus) dried salami. hard cheese such as cheddar. mini bagels.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

We've also taken the cheese in a spray can (can't remember what it's called

It's called Easy Cheese.

You might find this amusing:

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/cheese/cheese.html

 

[fakereadhed]

It's called Easy Cheese.

You might find this amusing:

http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/cheese/cheese.html

Amusing was not what came to mind when I saw that. Now the pink castle does not bother me, but that was truly disturbing.

 

[twinkletoesmom]

Trail mix. Luna or other protein bars. Apples & peanut butter. Hummus with mini pita breads & baby carrots. (running to the buses breakfast was often the individual packs of carrots opened up with a couple of spoonfuls of hummus) dried salami. hard cheese such as cheddar. mini bagels.

I would love to do all this food but we won't have a fridge. Do you think that those small bags of carrots would be okay unrefridgerated? My kids could live on those. I never heard of dried salami, does that have to be in the fridge?

 

[fostrmom2mny]

Don't forget that at least the Values sell loaves of bread in the gift shop. At least at the ASMu I know they do. Tuna in the vacume pack are on my packing list this year. I've already started saving mayo packets and relish packets to use with the tuna.

The gift shop even sold lunch meat and milk. I used the ice bucket for the milk and took bowls with cerial mini boxes.

I also mailed myself a package ahead of time. In it I sent laundry box (small kind) crackers, juice drinks pop tarts, peanut butter, jelly and ect....
It cost about 17.00 to send it (about 5 days before we left) I didn't realise the gift shop sold lunch meat till about the day before we left. Of course it was a bit higher than in the grocery store, BUT, not so expensive that it wasn't a good buy for a quick lunch or evening snack.

Sorry for ramblimg, guess I'm gearing up myself for my July trip this summer.
Have fun!
Gerri

 

[bevtoy]

We like the individual applesauce packs in various flavors. Cereal bars, QUaker oats rice cakes. raisens, any type of nuts. We make our own trail mix called "Gorp" which is made of your favorite type cheerios, peanuts, raisens and one of the following : chocolate chips, Skittles, or M & M's.( the heat factor makes Skittles work better)

 

[jenelope]

I'm planning to eat breakfast in my room on this trip, so I've been plotting easy to pack foods that won't go bad in transit. I will have a fridge on arrival, but I started looking for shelf-stable foods for the travel portion. My breakfast plans are currently multi-grain bagels with Laughing Cow cheese spread on them, eaten with a piece of fruit from the cafeteria. Fresh whole fruit is about a dollar per piece. Laughing Cow cheese makes a great replacement for cream cheese, because it's divided into 8 one ounce wedges that are individually foil wrapped. Technically, it should be refrigerated once the outer packaging is opened, but it needs no refrigeration before then. (I've also never noticed any problem with not refrigerating it at all, which is why I said "technically".) Individually wrapped string cheese is another option, though I think it tastes better cold.

Recently, I experimented with pre-cooked chicken in a shelf-stable pouch, thinking that my planned breakfast could use a little more protein. The one I got was from Pleasant Valley and was a seven ounce pouch (at Target). It wasn't bad. A little salty and probably full of preservatives. I think it would taste better in soup or a sandwich than it did plain. It was just basic chicken chunks, probably boiled or poached. Any unused portion would definitely need refrigeration after opening, though. I've decided against this one for my trip.

 

[drakester]

Why don't you concider checking a cooler if your flying? I did this once and they check it as one of our bags at the airport. I used a sharpie to write my name and address on it. We stop at a grocerie store on the way to disney and got lunch meat bread and some other stuff that would keep in the cooler.