Heathly But Fast

[chrissie_w]

As a lady who puts on weight pretty quickly I need to be bery careful all the time!! Boring I know, after all it is a holiday. My sentiments exactly but I've got 3 weeks of Disney and Orlando stuff!! So................ Please help,

1. How easy is it to find reasonably priced heathly 'normal' food in the disne parks. (I remember going to euro disney and anthing more than fries and burgers was really expensive!)
2. Same question but outseide the parks? I'm thinking that they all have healthy stuff but it's whether you can resist the pancakes and cheese cakes... (sorry ,.... drooling now!!)

Any tips would be helpful and much appreciated!!

xx

 

[tinkandpan]

Everywhere you go-there will be something for you to eat within the realm of regular pricing. I suggest going to look at the allears menus and seeing which places you would choose from.

 

[CamColt]

I dont have any specific answers for you (I tend to take my vacations as a time to vacation from the diet and eat and drink whatever I want ), but you might want to look over the Disney menus on our site here.
http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/dining/disneydining.cfm

 

[officer tigger]

Where are you staying? When we go we stay in the DVC resorts that a fridge in the room. That way we can have a delivery of food and eat healthy stuff for breakfast in the room each day. Then we pack a lunch and bring it with us to the parks. For dinner I just scan the menu and ask to replace some items if I can. If you are staying in the resorts that only have a small fridge in it, having a food delivery may be hard to do.

I know how you feel. I can look at a cookie and gain weight. So when I eat the darn thing I'm in trouble.

Good luck!!

 

[Em&Bec'sMom]

When you are in Epcot, I would recommend Sunshine Seasons in the Land pavilion. More than just burgers and fries, lots of sandwiches, salads, noodle dishes, and I don't remember the prices being outrageous (although we were on the dining plan, so I wasn't looking at the prices quite as intently).

 

[Eeyore's Pal]

Fresh fruit is available from fast food stands in all four major parks. Also, the buffets have fresh fruit on their dessert bars.

 

[HdnMickeyGrl]

To add to the fresh fruit aspect, a lot (possibly all) of the counter service places that server burgers also serve veggie burgers. I beleive that a veggie burger would be lower in fat and calories. Just ask for it without the bun and load up on the veggies at the fixins' bar. And ask to substitue fruit or carrots for fries. Another option is to order the children's meal which almost always come with options for apples, carrots or applesauce. And whatever the main item is would be a smaller serving. At a children's price it would definitely be reasonable. Obviously you can only order the children's meal at counterservice restaurants and not at the table service restaurant.

On a side note: I was on a relatively strict diet a few years ago at Disney. I kind of threw it all out and said, if I gain a pound, oh well. We must have walked a lot because we ate at several buffets and although I ate veggie burgers I really didn't pay too much attention to what I was eating and I only gained .3 lb That's a little more than a quarter of a pound. So you might be able to watch what you eat without being fanatical and manage to break even.

 

[goofygal531]

You can find fresh fruit usually at a fruit stand set up in each park. I know there's one in MK in Mickey's Toon Town Fair.

My Weight Watchers leader suggest eatting a burger but remove the bun and go crazy at the fixin's bar-lettuce, tomatoes, onions, etc... turn your burger into a salad.

The Dole Whip is a low cal treat in Adventureland in MK. I think a small is about 80 calories. Very refreshing!

Obviously avoid the turkey legs, high in sodium! You can find hard boiled eggs, yogurt, fresh fruit, wraps, etc... in your resort grab n' go market near the food court.

I ship a box down with snack and juice boxes for the kids and a few things for myself like: oatmeal packets, breakfast bars, WW muffins, 100 calorie packs, crystal lite on the go, etc...

You also have to realize how much walking your'll be doing. If you cheat here and there I doubt it will show on the scale when you go home. The average disney guest walks a minimum 15 miles a day! Wear a pedometer and see!

Mare

 

[lunalibre]

My DH has digestive problems, so we always have to be careful what we eat. He can't eat beef, must severely limit fried food, etc. We had no problems whatsoever finding food he could eat that was also healthy. Lots of CS places serve rotisserie chicken with vegetables. We'd get one half-chicken meal, order extra vegetables, and get a fruit salad. Splitting that was plenty of food for both of us and was certainly healthy. Sunshine Seasons in the Land at Epcot was good. We also got sandwiches at the bakery in Norway that were good. We ate at Marrakesh, but the CS Moroccan restaurant had several good options as well.

In MK, we ate at Cosmic Ray's and had decently healthy paninis at Pinocchio's. MGM was our most difficult park. We were visiting in summer, and DESPITE SEVERAL PLACES LISTING DINNER HOURS, most every place we tried to eat was CLOSED for dinner!!!! Can you tell how annoyed we were??? A restaurant shouldn't say it's open for dinner if it is clearly closed at 5pm!!!! Anyway, we had to make do with pizza that night. Plain cheese pizza isn't awful for DH. AK was somewhat limited in choices for CS, too. At the time, Tusker House was still open as a CS, so we ate there. I think Flame Tree BBQ might be your next best bet. We were also able to get some healthy, if not exactly stellar, wrap sandwiches at the water parks.

As another poster said, go check out the menus for all CS restaurants on All Ears. I had a list of possible places to eat at each park. That helped a lot because we weren't wasting time looking for restaurants.