Kids Meals Sit - Down Epcot - Need plain food..

[MyTwoPrincesses]

Well, kids meals are all pretty boring, if you ask me! Les Chefs de France has a burger on the kids menu. Via Napoli has pizza. Most places have at least 1 "plain" item like chicken fingers. As for grown-up food, I'd say Chefs (there's a steak on the menu), Biergarten, Rose and Crown, or Teppan Edo (it's meat, vegetables, and plain rice).

 

[camlace]

We love to have the treat of a sit down meal on vacation. We are thinking about adding the dining plan, but I am concerned we will find restaurants to eat at now that my kids are older and super duper pickey. I need to find places with kids menus that include burgers, breaded chicken, dogs, pizza etc. My kids will not eat seafood, grilled chicken etc. I got kind of excited about tempo edo and then realized their kids menu wouldn't work. We have been to coral reef, it was ok but I was hoping to try new places. We are very meat and potatoes but really had pretty bad food at Le Cellier (and I fought so hard to get in there!). Not sure where else we could try that would work for the kids? Any recommendation?

I challenge you to find a children's menu at WDW that does NOT include at least one of those items. The children's menus have been dumbed down so much they are quite boring and repetitive.

 

[buckirj1]

Your best bet for meat-n-potatoes plain food are the food courts at the resorts, especially the value resorts. You can get plain turkey or chicken dinners with mashed potatoes and gravy and yes, even hamburgers. It's unlikely you'll find such food at Epcot.

 

[gardenia]

My kids learned how to eat real food (not nuggets & burgers) by going to Epcot restaurants. How are they ever going to learn if you don't ask them to try something different!!

 

[kchughes]

My picky eater (at age 6) ate the steak and noodles from teppan edo. He loves the quesadilla (AKA mexican pizza) at San Angel Inn. We have always found something for him at Biergarten and Akershus, evn if it is just fruit and dessert. But the World is also where he discovered calamari and LOVES it. We just don't tell him what it is. They might surprise you. I almost fell out of my chair when he ate calamari and salad in the same meal!

 

[gardenia]

I almost fell out of my chair when he ate calamari and salad in the same meal!

My point exactly!! If they're never challenged, they never grow out of those limited eating habits.

 

[2girlsmom]

OP, I feel for you, having an EXTREMELY picky (and light eating) 12 year old. Chefs has macaroni de gratin (mac & cheese), if they'll eat that, as well as a burger as mentioned. I do agree that there are benefits in having them TRY things outside their comfort zone, and we definitely encourage both kids, but especially with little miss picky, to try new things, and last trip she did share a few meals with me and tried several new things. Some she liked and some not!

 

[itchin2go]

My kids learned how to eat real food (not nuggets & burgers) by going to Epcot restaurants. How are they ever going to learn if you don't ask them to try something different!!

Yep. My PICKY daughter ADORED Teppan Edo on our last trip. You could have knocked me over with a feather when she VOLUNTARILY ate zucchini and mushrooms. And she LIKED them.

I *get* that you don't want to waste $$$ on vacation or deal with cranky kids. But Disney World is a great place to encourage kids to broaden their horizons in a fun way. Not at every meal, but every now and then. It's worth a shot!

Good luck!