Food to take with us?

[freedomlp]

In June we will be staying at Coronado for 7 nights and Pop for an additional 4 nights. Our kids are 15, 8 and 1. We will be driving to WDW and will have with us a regular size cooler that can run on ac power so we can keep it in the room. Atlhough we will buy most meals at the food court or the parks, I'm trying to make a list of good foods to take with us. Snacks and breakfast foods would be particularly helpful. Unfortunately, I can't seem to think past "cereal" and "Poptarts." Anybody have any specific suggestions on what we could keep in the room that you have found were good to take along? Thanks for your help!!!

 

[Cynt]

Bread/crackers
PB & J
Some type of nuts
Trail mix
Dried fruit/real fruit
Fruit snacks that come in a pkg. I purchase the Welch's brand. I love them.
Popcorn
Capri suns - these are so convenient.
Water

 

[tacomaranch]

Thanks for the great Post! We are only staying 3 days at OKW in a 1 br suite with full kitchen but I can't see buying and cooking food for ony 1 meal a day in our room.

I like the small snacks listed. We are also bringing apples, grapes and bananas. Fruit that we can eat on the go!

3 days to go, April

 

[Cruz91]

We bought a little $7 toaster at Wal Mart and it significantly adds to your breakfast possibilities! You can do things like the Toaster Strudels, all the different Eggo waffle types, and even put the pancakes Pilsbury pancakes in on a low toast setting. Worked for us, anyway....

Have a fun trip!

 

[powellrj]

We bought a little $7 toaster at Wal Mart and it significantly adds to your breakfast possibilities! You can do things like the Toaster Strudels, all the different Eggo waffle types, and even put the pancakes Pilsbury pancakes in on a low toast setting. Worked for us, anyway....

Have a fun trip!

Unless your room has a kitchen in it, cooking isn't allowed. If you contact Disney, they will tell you that you are more than welcome to use the toasters and microwaves in the food courts.

We like the little fruit bowls, little bowls of cereal and microwave popcorn!

 

[Cruz91]

Unless your room has a kitchen in it, cooking isn't allowed. If you contact Disney, they will tell you that you are more than welcome to use the toasters and microwaves in the food courts.

We like the little fruit bowls, little bowls of cereal and microwave popcorn!

Glad I didn't know that before! We stayed at NickHotel - which already had a microwave - but are planning on taking our toaster with us to All Star this November. I subscribe to the theory it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

 

[jensen]

I have a DS5 and a DD2 and we were on the dining plan, but I still packed a ton of food. I also packed a cheap (walmart) toaster, coffee maker and soft-sided cooler. We are light breakfast eaters, so we like to eat in our room prior to heading out for the day. My son loves oatmeal so I would use the coffee maker to brew hot water for his oatmeal before I brewed the coffee. The rest of us would eat bagels or muffins with PB&J. I would fill the soft-sided cooler with ice each day and use that to keep our milk (which we picked up on a grocery stop) cold.

For snacks I packed:
Cheese sticks (I don't worry about keeping the individually packed ones cold)
Jello Snacks
Pudding Snacks
Fruit Snacks
Cheese & Cracker Snacks
Apples
Goldfish Crackers (in a box).

I also packed paper plates, napkins & plastic silverware. And lots of zipper sandwich bags.

Crackers turned into crumbs in the luggage, grapes went bad if they weren't kept cold. Bananas got bruised. Bottled pop exploded on the plane.

 

[Dizneydaz]

We always seem to have way too much food in our room at the end of our trip. We always rent a van and make a stop at Walmart on the way to the World. We get snacks (pretzels, chips) and cereal (regular size boxes) and last time we got bread (for toast and sandwiches) and bagels. We used the toaster in the food court last trip and it worked out great. The only problem was on the last day when I went to toast the bagels they had these interesting green spots on them-YUCK! Guess I should have put them in the refrig.

We also load up on bottled water and diet Coke. Some fruit-bananas, apples (cut up in packages too), and grapes. Milk too. Oh, and some candy can come in handy too!

My DD isn't much of an early breakfast eater so my mom and I eat our cereal and bagel(toast) and she takes her breakfast on the go. I put some cereal in a ziploc along with a piece of fruit and she's go to go. Sometimes she'll have 1/2 bagel too. If we're not staying at a deluxe resort we also buy peanut butter because what good is a bagel or toast without alittle PB & J!

Last time we also bought some salami, cheese and crackers for a quick snack in the room. We've also bought wine but usually end up leaving it for housekeeping as it doesn't get drank (or is it drunk ). We leave all our extra, unopened food for housekeeping (we always have something leftover whether we are on the DDP or not) and we usually give our leftover bottled water to someone at the rental car company.

 

[powellrj]

Just a warning, cooking in your room is a HUGE hot button topic on the DIS. If you don't believe me, do a search and you will find some very heated posts about it. While you can do whatever you feel comfortable with, just a heads up that it can become a very, very heated topic that people feel very strongly about.