Help! Milk and nut allergic 2yo son

[karenbaco]

What can i find there for my baby to eat at the parks besides Chicken fingers and french fries? Does anyone know if there are soy ice creams? I have no idea what he'll eat.
Thanks
Karen

 

[solferino]

Definitely check the disABILITIES forum here. I know that with the table-service restaurants you can make arrangements with your ADR's about special dietary needs. I remember seeing something in other posts that chefs at the buffet meals have personally walked families around the buffet acknowledging the "safe" food items. I'm certain that a reminder call the day before a TS meal about the allergies they can plan accordingly and help you out.

As I understand it WDW is really good about special dietary needs.

Good luck!

 

[sap1227]

We had the most wonderful experience at Cape May Cafe 2 weeks ago.

My son is allergic to wheat, citrus, and american cheese. We had eaten at Chef Mickey's a few months ago and they had wheat free frozen waffles (the same ones we have at home). At Cape May the chef made him Mickey Waffles without wheat (I am tearing up just thinking about it). He was so excited to have Mickey Waffles like everyone else!

At both buffets the Chef walked around with me and told me what he could and could not have.

Disney is soooo great about food allergies!

Have a great trip!
Christy

 

[cillakat]

i have two kids with gluten intolerance....both also allergic to dairy.....on also allergic to soy. she outgrew eggs and nuts and bean (yeah!!!!)

but last yr at disney she hadn't yet.

i did lots with priority seatings....and even w/out one, as soon as a chef heard from our server or a mgr that there was a food allergic child, they were *on top of it* like no other place I've been. almost every place had gluten free bread and waffles (the waffles have soy which isn't a problem for you).

i didn't inquire about icecream alternatives b/c soy is also a problem for us. i brought their little snacks in their tiny fanny packs and carried their little cookies for when others were having snacks.

the fanny packs were from oriental trading company....the girls loved them. i got 12 or 13 of them for about $13 iirc. used the rest as a birthday party craft. the cookies that i like to carry for them are the individual packs from Enjoy Life. The snickerdoodle, chocolate chip and double chocolate are incredible. They come 2/pack or 12/box. Not cheap but soy, diary, nut, egg, milk free...basically ingred free LOL.


katherine in atl

 

[disneyvillainlover]

Just thought I would add that we booked the Crystal Palace and we have to phone up 7 days in advance to speak to the chef.. other places vary from 72 hours up to 7 days.

My daughter is allergic to.. all dairy, eggs, peanuts, nuts, fish, seafood/shellfish, peas and beans..

 

[PortieOwner]

You will not have any problems at sit-down restaurants. Our son has the exact same food allergy. Make a priority seating and make sure they get the allergy into the computer. They will give you the phone number for the chefs at each restaurant. Call them a week ahead. When you are seated at the restaurant ask for the Chef and they will talk to you and help you. Chances are they will make up fresh food and/or arrange of alternative foods (like substituting fruit for dessert cake). The chefs are serious food pros and they take allergies very seriously. One thing I never thought of was the danger of cross-contamination at a buffet. Someone can use the egg spoon to pick up sausage and you can get egg contamination. We did risk this a couple of times on buffets because the boy was hungry and throwing a tantrum. I can't say enough good things about the high level of service the Disney chefs provided.

For counter service it is a bit tougher. Each park has a coordinator for these special needs. Brenda Bennett (?) is the person for the MK and she will either call you or email you if you contact her office. I should have gotten in touch with the other coordinators. For egg/nut free it seems like the Morrocco Restaurant and Counter Service is a good bet. Also Pepper Market at CSR has a lot of options for avoiding eggs and nuts.

Consider getting some amount of safe food to keep in your hotel room--crackers, fruit, bread, whatever the boy likes to eat.

At all of the places we ate they made up special food even though a 2-year-old is not a paying customer. Pretty nice of them.

Portie

 

[PortieOwner]

One update, I had not eaten there yet when I posted before but at Le Cellier the chef didn't come out. The server spoke to the chef about the things we ordered. We did receive one item (waffle under sorbet serving) which probably did have egg so we isolated that from his dessert.

Moral of the story: don't turn off your brain when dining with a food-allergic child.

Overall, I'd expect that the better resort restaurants would do the best job dealing with allergies.