Have you ever has tooo much food in your room ?

[pooh2001]

It will be our 16th wedding anniversary.
Our DS & DD will be with us at the Polynesian.

I saw a nice family baskets with snacks & fruit I can order from the Disney Florist.
I also thought I would order some flowers and wine for our 16th.

Netgrocer sounded like a great way to ship some snacks, cereal & juice packs to our resort.

Tiffany town car is picking us up and I thought we would buy more fruit, a cooler & water bottles on
our way to the Polynesian.

And of course I will pack some fruit snacks, gum & granola bars.

So, has anyone ever had too much food/snacks in the room ?

Am I going overboard & ordering too much ?

We'll be at WDW for 11 days.
Really only planning breakfast in the room (early AM).
We would bring snacks with us to the parks.

Thank you for any suggestions you may have.

 

[Barbruka]

In 99 at Dixie Landings we made a grocery stop and bought about $60 worth of breakfast, snack and drink items, for seven days. We probably had about $50 worth left over. Had to chuck it at the end. What a waste, as we were never that hungry with the big meals at the parks and resorts. Next time, I'm buying two or three items for our eight days and thats it! Don't over buy--you won't use it!

 

[Kermit]

We always take too much, but we drive, so we just take it back home. I would get less food. Get just enough for breakfasts and a few snacks.

 

[kendeann]

We always take an extra medium size suitcase with food and then have one for souvenirs later. It seems like when heading home clothes don't fit as well as coming...
Usually all dirty so I just stuff .... and don't try to get organized as I was coming home.

We even wrap 24 pack of Mt Dew in bigger beach towels and jeans for the ride on the plane...
Never had any trouble with them exploding and had several people wondering were we
got the pepsi products at... ONLY COKE SOLD AT DISNEY>>>>>

I took juice boxes, fruit in tupperware container, little debbies, chocolate bars for an urge of chocolate.... granola bars, powder donuts, etc.
We usually did breakfast buffets 3 out of 5 mornings mid morning to do breakfast/lunch so didn't worry about breakfast.... Maybe graba granola bar if heading out early and not doing meal till later in morning... but usually still stuff from evening meal....


good Luck - never can have too much food but usually exhausted at night to eat too much.

 

[trishy]

We bought breakfast items, snacks, & water also. The packaged left over stuff, like water, packaged cookies, juice boxes, were very much appreciated by the bellman (do they still call them that?). We travelled by airplane (with 3 kids!) so didn't want to hastle taking it in our luggage - it was heavy enough. Besides, it seemed to make him happy.

 

[ceecee]

We packed some food, muffins, pretzels, granola bars, juice boxes and apples. We were at the park all day and at night we's stop by the food court for a snack. Had a lot of stuff left, except the juice boxes.

 

[SandraC]

April 2001, dd 7 yo, ds 15 months old, dh and I CBR trip.

Because ds still ate baby food and loves Cheerios and cookies, we brought a lot from home.

We also went shopping a couple times. I got sucked in a bought Rainbow Bread at Crossroads. It was good, but I also bought regular whole wheat bread. We chucked half the bread.

We didn't even touch the Pop Tarts! (from home)
We ate the cookies. (from home and bough more)
We had way too many Cheerios left over!

 

[LKS]

We use it all. Bought about $60 groceries for 4 night stay. Provided 7 meals plus snacks for 5 people. Can't beat $1.70 per meal! We ran out of cereal for the last morning and my husband said, "Hey, we still have PB&J and bread to use up" so he fed the kids PB&J for breakfast that last day. I refused, but 9 yo son ate two sandwiches - so, by gosh, we used it all up! We are very firm about eating in the room for breakfast and one other meal each day. Find breakfast saves us time and the other meal is usually when we are back in the room for a rest. We take a good variety - carrots and ranch dip, yogurt, milk, juice, cereal, chips & salsa etc... Keep it in the cooler which he drains each am while I get about two ice buckets full of ice to refill. BTW, we drive! If you feel you will be more tempted to eat out, don't buy a lot. I would eat out more, but husband is the voice of reason.

 

[mummajea]

I think it all depends on how big of a snackers your family is and what you bring. I chose stuff carefully and didn't feel like we had a lot that I had to leave behind. But since i am PG and need eat small but constant meals it was different. DH is also a big snacker.

From home I brought Sweetened cereal (treat for us) which was good for both breakfast and as a snack (bring extra ziploc bags)1
breakfast bars
Hard candy and gum
Apple juice boxes (one pack)
Dried fruit
pretzels
triscuts (should have brought two boxes)
goldfish
Girls scout cookies (thin mints)
Snack size canned fruit

Stopped at Publix with TTC pick up and got
twelve yogarts
Gallon of milk (should have gotten 2 half gallons one being chocolate milk as a treat)
Mini bagels (2 packages)
Cream cheese
Merkts cheese (should have gotten more)
Fresh fruit - grapes apples lemons (for water flavoring) Cherries
orange juice
some hard cheese

We endend up bringing the canned fruit home which I figured we might. I brought it as a back up in case we didn't find good fresh fruit or ran out. We dumped half the milk, which I also suspected we would do since DD and DH are the only ones that drink it "plain". Most of the time we did dry cereal on the run, which is what we usually do at home anyways. Brought home some of the cereal, and snacky items also. Not much though. I packed in in our carry ons which was good since neither of our flight s had any food service, so it helped on the plane and the lay over.

 

[pooh2001]

Thanks for all the advice.

I think I will still order flowers from the WDW florist for our 16th
anniversary (balloons too). We hardly ever do fresh flowers at home
because our cats go after them.

The snack bags for the kids looked cute from the WDW florist too.
I would like them to add a WDW baseball cap to each.
I hope they have white adjustable caps with a WDW logo.
The cap would be another souvenier with some character signatuers
(bringing sharpie pens).

I will ship from the US post office (my own box - thanks for the suggestion)...
cereal
juice boxes
crackers
cookies
fruit roll ups
small packs of M&M's
small packs of applesauce
granola bars
goldfish
small knife to cut fruit
paper goods & plastic spoons
LOTS of zip lock bags (snack size to gallon size)

I'll use paper towels for packaging.
I will use the TTC grocery stop to buy fruit & water bottles and a cooler.

Thanks again !

 

[elgerber]

We ordered a box of cereal and snacks from Netgrocer for our December trip. We ended up throwing some things away, and cramming a few more snacks into our carry on for the plane. We used all the cereal, but had way too many snacks left over. We discovered at the parks and such there were just way too many goodies to snack on. My kids would much rather snack on popcorn or mickey ice cream bars, than a pack of snack crackers that they eat at home all the time. We are still sending a box this year, but not as much, and concentrating more on water and juice boxes.

Erika