I am a raw vegan, my kids are vegetarian--help!

[Walt Disney Worlders]

I would suggest doing some mono meals for breaskfast & lunch if you are ok with it. There are fruit stands where you can get bananas (most calories) for about $1. Add a watermlon meal and you would be very hydrated and full! Your family could do counter service for those.

I would make reservations for dinner through disney dining, and request food allergies (we always say egg and milk, as we are vegan) or at least call the food specialist for that restaurant and expalin you need veggie meals for the kids and a raw one for you. They should be very helpful!

 

[Mamakoala]

thank you for all these smart, smart answers!! I don't think I'll go with the dining plan....but I might, and just go high raw while I amthere, with some cooked vegan items.

It's cool that there are other raw vegans on this board

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

The Wave at the Contemporary would be a fine choice.
Plus there is always Dole Whip !

That's right. Dole Whips are dairy-free! Yum! Yum!

A Dole Whip would NOT be on the menu for a raw vegan!

But, the kids would be able to enjoy it!

We've found most of the hotels and parks have fresh fruit and salads on the regular menu. You should be fine while at WDW.

- Jennifer

 

[bumbershoot]

That's right. Dole Whips are dairy-free! Yum! Yum!

Actually, with the sodium caseinate, they might be lactose free but they are not dairy free (love how they say dairy free while saying "a milk derivative" in their ingredient list). And since they are just a jumble of chemicals with the only food ingredient being sugar (doubt that's raw) and "Pineapple Juice Concentrate", I can't imagine someone as into health as a raw vegan would really want that. I don't, and I'm ovo lacto veggie! Then again, my fam can't eat corn syrup solids, so they are totally off the menu anyway.



So, for the raw vegan original poster, I have no experience with WDW, but I know that they have people you can talk to about food needs. And WDW usually seems to "do" food better than DLR, and DLR has a chef you can contact through Disney Dining and talk to about things. I called about some items that CMs were saying had chicken stock in them (things *called* Vegetarian with a capital V), and we ended up talking about all sorts of other things. He said that they had recently created a raw vegan lasanga for a guest. And that's at Disneyland, where food is NOT the focus. So if I were you I would contact the people in charge of food, and see what can be created for you!!!!!

 

[crisi]

I'd really encourage a car rental and a shopping trip - plus a fridge in the room - unless you are willing to compromise. In my experience, fruits and vegetables from grocery delivery services are never what I would have picked - they are not ripe enough, or bruised, or I would have passed on grapes had I known that they only had the kind that looked like that...... Also, I would suspect a raw vegan would be interested in organics, and shopping yourself allows you to make those decisions as well, since organic produce doesn't always occur with the same selection.

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

Actually, with the sodium caseinate, they might be lactose free but they are not dairy free (love how they say dairy free while saying "a milk derivative" in their ingredient list).

I did not know that. Thanks for the info! After reading all the ingredients in a Dole Whip, I may not have one next time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dole_Whip

- Jennifer

 

[bumbershoot]

Sorry Jennifer.

The really sloppy edit in the ingredients part of the wiki page is mine. (both proud that I entered something and embarrassed by the bad job I did with my entry)

The pretty part that doesn't list corn syrup solids is wrong, which I found out by going to precisionfoods.

I'm lucky in that I felt the whips tasted like melted plastic (b/c, you know, I've tasted that, LOL), but I went looking for the ingredients after my son went into a crazed frenzy after eating part of a dole whip, and he only does that when under the influence of corn syrup products. At the same time DS was going nuts (in the small crowded walkway between main street and Adventureland at Disneyland) my husband was nearly passing out on the bench, which is HIS reaction to anything-corn-syrup. sigh.

Anyway, sorry. I hate doing that to people, but at the same time, health-conscious people deserve to know that what they are eating isn't "real".

 

[LilyWDW]

Anyway, sorry. I hate doing that to people, but at the same time, health-conscious people deserve to know that what they are eating isn't "real".

It's called an informed decision and I think it is wonderful that you take your time to find these things out and post them. Personally, I will keep eating them even knowing about then, but I'm not really "health-conscious" (that sounds bad... I care about what I eat but it I want a Dole Whip I allow myself to have one, kwim?). To me, it's a treat and since I have no dietary resitrictions, *shrug*

But yea, I don't mind you posting that information... it could save someone a really bad reaction.