Feingold and Disney (food allergies)

[kalc12345]

Does anyone here follow Feingold? If so were you able to find suitable foods at Disney?

We started using Feingold this year and have seen a HUGE improvement in my son. The main things that bother him the most are artificial colors/flavors, HFCS, and caramel color. This will be our first time at Disney since starting Feingold and I just want to make sure we stick as close to the diet as we can.

We are taking a Disney cruise and then going to WDW for a couple of days. While at WDW we will be doing all counter service except for one sit down meal at Sci-Fi. Anyway, if anyone has any tips/advice I would appreciate it

 

[Leota]

Contact special diets. They'll send you a packet of info so you can look at allergy free counter service options up front. When you go to a CS place, let them know you have food allergies & they'll have a mgr or chef come out with The Book that has all the ingrediants for all their foods, so you can pick a safe option. The packet helps because you can pick ahead of time & know where to go.

I have several food allergies & several intolerances & they fed me like a Queen.

 

[LilyWDW]

Contact special diets.

When you get to the restaurant, remind them and they will get the chef. Explain what your child can not and can have. Don't just say that your child is on Feingold because you don't want to risk the chef and server "knowing" what that is. Since it is a pretty restricted diet, I also suggest writing it all down on notecards you can give the chef so that they don't have to try and remember it all.

 

[clanmcculloch]

If you were going to be eating quite a few TS meals I'd say you'd have no problems. Unfortunately, you say you'll be doing almost all CS meals. That won't be easy. In fact it might be difficult. Definitely contact Special Diets. I agree with others that you should state what you're avoiding (ex colorings, flavourings, sugar) with both Special Diets and chefs/restaurant managers. Not many will be familiar with Feingold. At CS locations in the parks you won't actually speak with a chef (other than Sunshine Seasons in Epcot); you'll speak with a manager. Managers only have the ability to heat what they have on hand; they can't actually cook something else. This is where you'll have problems. Special Diets can give you information about ingredients in the CS foods so that you can know ahead of time just what options will be available.

CS at your resort will be much easier. At your resort, you'll always speak with a chef rather than a manager. The chefs can prepare safe food for you with the ingredients they have rather than being limitted by premade meals. We tend to eat most of our CS meals at our resort for this reason.

The park CS location where you'll have the most options is Sunshine Seasons. You'll get to speak with a chef and the options are much greater. They do have a lot of fresh ingredients to work with and you may find that there are already some options that are safe.

I would suggest going over the information from Special Diets and coming up with a list of what CS foods can be found in what locations and also figuring out which snack foods around the parks are safe. This makes it easy to just walk up to a food location to grab something to eat rather than having to go through books while standing in the parks and it enables you to know if there will even be anything at a particular location before walking up and waiting in line.

 

[kalc12345]

Thanks everyone. I have contacted special diets and they sent me a long list of stuff which helped. I am now looking through it and trying to plan out his meals. Thanks again for the help

 

[SDSorority]

Thanks everyone. I have contacted special diets and they sent me a long list of stuff which helped. I am now looking through it and trying to plan out his meals. Thanks again for the help

Did they give you information on artificial colors or just items that were 'allergy friendly'?