Feeding young toddlers while at WDW

[Raenstoirm]

My twins will be 10 months and my niece will be 11 months during our trip next month. My niece isn't all that food oriented (so she is fine with just breast milk if needed), but my two are all about food! lol. They are 90% on adult food broken into pieces, so I tend to just put whatever I am eating on their trays. But I don't allow them to have anything fried. How do you feed your toddlers? We tend to do a fast breakfast (a pastry for example), CS lunch at the fast food type places and then a sit down dinner. I am trying to figure out how on earth to feed the babies. They are not into baby food, but will eat purees occasionally.

 

[tmh43]

My son was the same, he never wanted baby food and went straight to eating whatever we ate. I actually found it easier to eat out with him! I would have to pick healthier items to eat (salads and chicken wraps) which I'm not sure how easy that will be to find at Disney world, but I've heard it can be done! The biggest issue with eating out (since you're already avoiding fried foods) is the salt content, so maybe see if they can hold the salt. It won't always be possible, especially at quick service places, but it may be at table service restaurants depending on which of the ingredients are made ahead of time(ex sauces and broths will have the sodium in it, but maybe they can hold adding extra before cooking a chicken breast). Also, we are doing a grocery delivery so that we can bring fruit and veggies into the parks as snacks. My son is almost 3 and is the best eater, so you shouldn't have any problems at all Of course, now that he eats enough to warrant his own meal, he absolutely will not eat kid menu stuff- he wants real food- so he's an expensive kid!

 

[Momof3WDW]

Most quick service locations have healthy kids meal options. I think they cost about $6 but maybe you can buy one and split that between your twins. My youngest DD was 14 months when we went this year. She lived off munchies (veggie straws, gold fish, animal crackers), veggie/fruit pouches, grilled chicken, mac n cheese or uncrustable at most lunches. Dinner we would usually do a buffet and there is always healthy stuff to find for the kids there.
Check out allears.net they have a great section of menus from all the restaurants to see their offerings.

 

[msmama]

My son has been going to WDW since 10 months and he never ate baby food. He did have his first chicken nuggets there (with the breading taken off) and his first French fries. He would also eat burger patties. Kids meals come with grapes (which can be cut easily with plastic knives). I also would often buy fruit bowls and he could eat them all day.

A lot of people say that Disney doesn't have good choices for kids meals, but I disagree. They have turkey sandwiches, Mac n cheese, grilled chicken, lots of things that aren't fried.

 

[Raenstoirm]

Kinda tacked on to this, do the DVC resorts (specifically jambo) sell raw eggs in the store? We have never needed to think about cooking anything so I never looked. We are doing a split stay so I will order non perishables from garden grocer, but I can't expect eggs and yogurt to make the trek from bc to jambo. We have a grand villa for the second half of our trip so plenty of space to actually cook.

 

[jvz82]

My 3rd child was 12 months old when we went on our last trip. I brought a lot of snack foods for him and bananas and things that I could just have in the diaper bag for him. I also feel like I nursed him maybe a little bit more often because it was just so hot. I used opportunities like on It's a Small World where it was dark and air conditioned for nursing time.

 

[kayemgi]

We haven't been yet, but I've been planning and thinking about food for our upcoming trip with our 14-month old. She loves pasta, beans, fruit, and eggs, so I've actually gone through every single quick service menu and made notes on where we can get things she likes in each park. It's also based on what we like and where we will be, so it's not comprehensive, but I can tell you you can get fruit lots of different places in all four parks, and Sunshine Seasons and Be Our Guest have a kid's turkey meatloaf meal, The Boulangerie in France has quiche, the Liberty Inn at the American Adventure and Pizzafari have pasta with marinara, Restaurantosaurus has a black bean burger, and Pecos Bill's has kid's burrito bowls. Hope that's helpful!

 

[Raenstoirm]

Wow! You have done your homework! Thanks for the info.

 

[ktlm]

When DD was a preschooler, and a very picky eater, we would use Garden Grocer to have groceries delivered to the resort when we arrived. That way I knew that if I could not get her to eat anything in the parks, I would at least have stuff in the room she would eat. We did all her breakfast stuff from there and had breakfast in the room, and then had other items on hand. Garden Grocer is great! We would have stuff delivered right about the time we expected to arrive from the airport, and then you just pick it up at bell services. The resort will refrigerate things if for some reason the groceries get there before you do.

 

[Raenstoirm]

We are using GG, but doing a split stay so the perishables (which is what they mostly eat) wont be able to make the trek from Beach club to Animal kingdom.

 

[annadreamsofdisneyworld]

I just took my daughter at 14 months. I brought crackers, puffs, and fruit/veggie pouches as back ups if she didn't like the food available at meals. For breakfast we got scrambled eggs and cut up fruit at the food court at our hotel, which we shared with her. For lunch and dinner I would share my bread and meat if she wanted it, and sometimes I would buy her something extra like a fruit and cheese plate, yogurt, or applesauce. It wasn't hard to feed her. Just bring back up snacks.