food in your room

[tammyandtommy]

And before we need the cooking police, LOL I mean food requiring no cooking or microwave cooking.......... To save money what kind of foods do you bring with you? I have diabetes therefore I am getting a fridge for my insulin, and was wondering do people really eat in the rooms and if so what? Thanks

 

[disyady]

The thing my DD's ate the most in the room was instant oatmeal for breakfast and a bedtime snack. We also take a couple of boxes of cold cereal for breakfast and snacks and juices in plastic screw-top bottles. My husband likes plenty of water bottles with Crystal Lite drink crystals. Other than that we didn't need much. Two meals per day in Disney restaurants was plenty of food for us!

 

[greatgonzo]

We have brought small individual size cereals with us, chips and drinks, occasionally alcohol. Also, every once in a while its fun to order pizza and have it delivered to your room. That gets expensive though.

 

[Rhonda]

We've done cereal for breakfast. It's a little cheaper to buy a quart of milk from the gift shop the night before and keep it on ice in the room, than it is to get it from the food court in the morning.

 

[kirbsam]

milk, juice, peanut butter, bread, lunch meat, apples, chips, cookies, popcorn, and drinks...fits in two grocery bags...saves you a ton of money...

 

[alyssa810]

When we've stayed at DVC resorts, we've kept bagels & cream cheese in the room for breakfast, lots of bottled water and granola bars....sometimes we'll pick up other snacks, but having a toaster in your room helps keep breakfast costs down.

 

[ciera321]

We are not huge breakfast eaters, so we find it a lot faster and easier to have a muffin and milk or coffee in the room and head out for the day. We ALWAYS buy bottled water on our way in and take a couple with us each day.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

We bring granola bars, cookies, cereal bars etc. Small things that require no cooking but make good snacks.

 

[Got Quattro?]

we drive down most of the time. So we load up a cooler with a lunch meat, cheese, fruit, gallon of milk, some soda, and bottles of water (frozen).

Then we have a few bags with bread, crakers, cereal, cookies and such.

The valets have no problem bringing it up to the room for us, and it only takes one trip to the ice machine mid week to keep it cold.

almost every morning, we give our 3 year old daughter a bowl of cereal, some fruit and milk. way cheaper than donuts and cinamon roles from the park.

Frequently we are able to skip lunch this way too.

 

[diathoney]

For a regular room (not a DVC place), we bring breakfast bars, Parmalat, beer, soda, chips, nuts, cheese sticks, cookies - just breakfast & munchie stuff. That way we don't have to pay for breakfast and we have enough food that we can create a "lunch" if we need to. We drive to WDW though, so luggage space is not an issue.

 

[Emme]

This thread was started a while ago, but I saved it! It has some great ideas...
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?threadid=362381

Enjoy and let me know what you think

 

[Carrie772]

That was a great thread to share! I really enjoyed reading it. That gave me ideas primarily for the trip down and morning times. I think we will actually have more fun "picnicking" in our room for breakfast and it will get us out of the door quicker for more fun!

 

[henrylovespooh]

A bag of Arnold's bagels, jars of peanut butter and jelly, Ritz crackers, single serve applesauce, apples and bananas, crystal light packets (funny that someone else's DH loves these too!), bottles of water. I usually bring too much and end up throwing it away.

 

[Cmbar]

OK I think it depends on where you stay, but we bring bagels or english muffins for Breakfast. PBJ and instant oatmeal. There are coffee makers in each room so we warm the water for oatmeal. In all the moderates and deluxes they now have refrigerators so we are good with bringing stuff and keeping cool. Bell services is so great beacause we stop at the grocery store before we come and they put all the cold stuff in their refridgerator if our room isnt ready at check in.

I also have to admit that I like my bagels and muffins toasted so I send Hubby down to the food court and he toasts them for me since they have toasters for everyone to use. It really is easy to save money on breakfast.

 

[tammyandtommy]

are toasters available at value resort food courts too? I love english muffins! Oh and I know when i used to manage a hotel we had individual pb and jelly packets anyone know where we can find them? I can see me now at breakfast at a local hotel, oh yes Id just like to see what you offer for continental breakfast I plan on having family in town, and then pilfering some packets of PB and J ROFLMBO

 

[SqueakyMouse]

This past fall, dh and I took a whole suitcase full of just snacks! No kidding. We took Cadbury bars, homemade Chex mix, sodas, water, Pringles chips, etc. Just lots of junk we'd collected at Target. We also took our own bourbon and sour mix.

 

[Buzz2001]

pop tarts, donuts, bagels, cereal

 

[Brendita]

Breakfast in the room always.
Cereal, muffins, juice.
For a snack or a light meal.
Cup of Noodles.
Use the coffee pot for the hot water.

 

[ms.ojo]

We make a grocery stop in the towncar on the way to the hotel. Buy apple juice boxes, quart of OJ and Milk, mini bagels, cream cheese and butter, cheddar cheese, muffins and some fresh fruit. Oh, pound of american cheese too!!

We bring from home some snack items: granola bars, fruit snacks, crackers and the cheese in a can.

Basically we eat b'fast in the room and sometimes a late night snack. Also want easy snacks for the lines in the park if needed. Traveling w/ young children that's a must! I always have a couple of juice boxes w/ me in the parks too for those must have drinks when you're no where near a vendor.

 

[Limmer]

My DH and I don't eat breakfast but my parents do so they had croissants and the precooked bacon to make breakfast sandwiches and I would have a granola bar mid-morning. We also had a case of 12 water and some beer to drink in the room. My Dad had some pretzels and cheese and crackers in his room for a quick pick me up (diabetic).