Grocery Delievery for GFCF Diet

[FJBill]

HI,

I have a ASD child on the GFCF diet and I"m looking at getting a grocery delivery for snacks, fruit, rice milk, etc. Does anyone know a good place that will carry foods DS can eat safely? The other idea is to ship food down to the resort. We do have the DDP, but nothing is worse then a tired, hungry child who wants to eat something NOW.

We leave on Sept. 9, so I do have some time left to plan.

Thanks for any responses you leave.

 

[larry's girl]

Hi, Bill. My 20-year-old daughter and I follow a GFCF diet, and we had lots of great food on our last WDW trip. I was surprised at how many snacks we can still have as long as we plan ahead a little bit. However, I can't blame you for wanting to have food available for your child at a moment's notice. I can't help with the grocery delivery question, but I do know that a Whole Foods has recently been built on Sand Lake Road. It's close enough that you could take a taxi to the store and back to your resort if shipping food down was not a workable solution for you. The last time I was over that way was last fall and it was under construction then, so you might want to check their website to be sure it is open now, but I would think they've had enough time to complete it by now. Hope this helps - have a wonderful trip!

Susan

 

[Cheshire Figment]

The Whole Foods Market on Sand Lake Road is just West of I-4 at the Sand Lake Road exit has been open for close to a month now.

Personally I would not trust any shopping service to do the required examination of labels, etc., for severe dietary restricitons.

 

[BrerVeritas]

Hi,
I also have an ASD child on a GFCF diet, and I may be going to WDW in Nov or Jan. (Haven't finalized which yet)

Can anyone tell me how long of a drive that is to the Whole foods. I'm trying to figure out how much a couple cab rides over the course of a week will cost in relation to just having limited items delivered.

I had originally planned in packing the staples we would need for the trip and just having refrigerated items delivered, but whole foods has such a great selection of GFCF food, it might eb a better idea to just go there.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Rather than trying to give distances from specific resorts, the exit numbers (mile markers) for I-4 include:

64 - US192/Main Gate
65 - Osceola Parkway
67 - Epcot Center Blvd/SR536
68 - SR535/Lake Buena Vista
71 - Central Florida Parkway/Sea World
72 - Beachline Expressway
74 - Sand Lake Road

And the Whole Foods Market is immediately West of I-4 on the South side of Sand Lake Road

Taxis are $2.20 for the first 1/4 mile and then $0.55 per additional 1/4 mile. It might actually be less expensive to rent a car from Alamo for a day than to take a taxicab both ways. Also you could get other errands done.

 

[mechurchlady]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1099253
found that thread.

I would recommend filling a suitcase with nonperishible items that are hard to come by like cereal. When you go home the food will be gone and there will be space for souveniers. On my San Antonio trip I will have a box of cereal for munching, peanut butter, a bag of chips and maybe some tins of tuna. Milk can be had at restaurants for example. Some resorts do carry a small line of snacks like Lays potato chips that are GFCF.

www.goodings.com
Goodings is expensive compared to home or even area markets. They are open 24 hours a day and you can order stuff not on their list via email or toll-free telephone number. They deliver to resorts and hotels on Lake Buena Vista, International Drive and WDW properties.
"There is a minimum order amount of $50 and there is a $20.00 handling charge." No booze sold and orders can be up to 48 hours before delivery.
It is cheaper to take a cab there or take a bus to Downtown Disney then a cab or walk.

www.gardengrocer.com
They prefer a 24 hour notice of delivery, you choose a time and they will get the items there within 2 hours. $12 delivery charge for WDW and Universal Studios resorts and free deliver on purchases over $200. They have a very wide range of food though again finding GFCF would be hard, I like their selection a lot better than Goodings and they are cheaper.

Hess gas stations at Pleasure Island, Boardwalk and MK World Drive have a convenience store. The MK one has made to order pizza, subs and other food items are available

http://www.tiffanytowncars.com
$109 round trip from the airport to WDW with a 30 minute grocery store stop. Rate for 4 people. Ibex Towncar has a similar offer.

DVC members might get groceries delivered. Sorry I ran out of steam on my search. Some sites refer to the old Gourmet Pantry at Downtown Disney but that was long gone about 4 or 5 years ago methinks.

 

[BrerVeritas]

My original intent was to bring a duffel bag full of food and use that for souvenirs. We did that last time we went before my son was GFCF, just because it was easier, and at the time we thought he was "just a picky eater".

My problem now, is that being a "picky eater" is an understatement for him. There are certain things he "absolutely must have" that we can't pack and that Disney doesn't supply as far as I know.

He won't drink any soy\rice milk except Very Vanilla Silk. From What I understand, Disney only has regular Vanilla, so we'll need to import ours.
2.He only eats two types of GFCF bread. (One which needs to be frozen...argh) Luckily, last I heard, the rolls that Disney has at its CS restaurants are the exact brand he eats. Yay!

So, I know I'm going to need to get some things, and I know whole foods carries all of them, because that is where we shop for all his food here in NJ. Unfortunately renting a car is out of our budget range, so we have to take magical express. If a cab is a 100 bucks, thats a $200 shopping tip which will probably have to knock a day off of our stay.

Maybe I'll just start an emailing campaign to whole foods now to start having them deliver. maybe by the time I go, I'll get lucky.

 

[BeckyScott]

Hmmm. It seems like there should be a work-around somehow.

We did the stocked-duffel-bag routine and it worked out fine. We had the dining plan, so the only meal in question was breakfast, and I just packed boxes of cereal (which DS eats plain) and some gfcf breakfast bars. I packed breakfast for the rest of us, too, so he wasn't singled out. I packed snacks-- and remember you'll need snacks when you're travelling so some need to be accessible-- but he didn't eat a whole lot of those. There was a big bag of pretzels and he ate out of that for at least 3 days, the dining plan serves big meals and he just didn't need the snacks.

The milk- can he just go without? Or is it part of his routine? I have seen Very Vanilla Silk in regular grocery stores, even the WalMart here carries it, so you wouldn't necessarily need a health food store for that.

Are you flying? I'm guessing you are, since if you're driving you could just pack a cooler and you wouldn't be using ME. Instead of "pack a duffel bag" you could do "pack a cooler", the smallest you could get away with while still packing what you need, and put in a ton of ice packs and check it. When we flew, DS had medication that needed to be refrigerated, I carried it on in an insulated lunch box with two ice packs, and it did just fine. I just made sure I didn't put it in there until we were on our way out the door, and I got it into the fridge in our room ASAP.

(which the fridge wasn't in our room at check-in and it was about an hour later before we got it, all in all the meds were in the lunch box for about 8 hours and were still cold)

I am thinking, and I could be wrong, that if you took one of the loaves of the frozen bread, put an ice pack with it, wrapped them together in a towel, and then that went into a cooler, that you'd be able to get there with it okay. You'd be chancing it more with the milk because of the possibility of it leaking- although- can you freeze the milk? I haven't tried to freeze soy before, you could try it now and see if it works. You could freeze it and put that in the cooler and I don't think it would completely thaw before your arrival.

Taking a cooler means you'd "lose" one piece of your luggage allowance, or you'd have to pay extra for it. But even if you had to pay $25 to check the cooler, it would still be cheaper than cabbing around Orlando.

 

[BrerVeritas]

The cooler idea might work for the bread. Thanks for the idea.

the milk may be an issue. You see, the very Vanilla soy is pretty much all he drinks. Its his comfort food. He asks for it often, and its difficult to distract him until he gets it. At home he goes through 3-4 quarts a week. We have to push him to drink a cup of apple juice each day just to get something different into him. So, 4 quarts of milk may be hard to fit into an airplane sized cooler, let alone the room fridge.

I am hopeful that the change in environment will lessen his need to be sipping milk. We took him to Sesame Place (near philly) recently, and he was enjoying himself so much, that he only asked for Milk twice. The first time we had a cup ready. The second time we distracted him with a trip on their tea cups clone, and he forgot all about it.

Just the fact that the ride was enough to make him forget on of his "things" was a major reason we decided to force our upcoming trip in as soon as possible. Last time we were in WDW he was "stoned on gluten". he's gotten so much more involved in the word since then, and had such a good experience at Sesame, that were extremely excited to see how he'll react to WDW this time.

Wow, sorry about the tangent. But yeah, maybe we won't need as much milk as we think. I'm already trying to occasionally cut his very vanilla, with vanilla in an effort to get him used to it. Maybe that will work as well.

 

[mechurchlady]

BINGO and we have a winner.

http://gardengrocer.com/
http://gardengrocer.com/details.php?item_id=3248&cid=
Silk Soymilk Very Vanilla 64oz. BTL 64 oz $0.07/oz $4.39

It would cost you $12 for delivery. It might be cheaper to have it shipped to your hotel from home. I do not do soy milk just almond, hazelnut and rice occassionally. It it is not perishable then save the dough and have a case shipped to the resort.

type in soy and you will find it, lol, not soy milk though.
bloodhound done found it, lol.

 

[Mary976]

Whole Foods stores generally have concierges who may be able to pull items together for you in advance, so even if they didn't offer delivery you could just have a quick taxi ride to the store to pick up your order.

Mary