Nut free at WDW?

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I don't know for sure about WDW although I would think it's the same practices as on the Disney cruises. I am allergic to all seafood (not just shellfish), spinach and kiwi fruit. Every time I ordered something at dinner, they would warn me if it was made with or contained something that was pre-packaged because they generally could not confirm the contents or any potential cross-contamination in food that was not prepared fully from scratch by DCL.

If you can take pre-packaged snacks that you are sure are nut free that's the most sure route. However, if they follow the same practices as DCL, then you should also be able to avoid pre-packaged foods at WDW that are not certified as nut free. If they don't know, they will probably assume that they are not safe and won't recommend.

For the rest of foods that are not pre-packaged, the kitchen/chef will handle that. When I ate breakfast at Kouzzina, they even cooked my potatoes in fat that is kept separate from any other common items that might be cooked in it like seafood. At Jiko, they made a side dish for me which would normally have spinach in it and substituted arugula. They went far beyond what any restaurant near me has ever done for my allergy avoidance and even raised my awareness of how I should avoid problems.

If there are particular restaurants you want to go to but are unsure, perhaps you can call and ask some questions to reassure yourself of the menu items and whether there are options and processes to avoid problems. Then you'll know which of the restaurants are the best choices.

Thank you!! As for pre-packaged foods, they do sell quite a few of them at the store on the Boardwalk (where we stay), so I could check the labels when we first check in, and then I will know which ones to avoid at the parks (as in the ice cream novelties, cookies, etc.). Although, I'm most interested in frozen novelties, because for packaged cookies I could just bring him individual packs of Oreos. We don't generally buy packaged cookies at WDW. We snack more on the fresh baked goods (like cupcakes), and ice creams.

Kouzzina was great with my son's shellfish allergy last year and also on our 2010 trip. Hopefully it will be as great for the nut allergies, but I'm sure the TS restaurants will all be wonderful, especially the Disney-run ones, since it seems to be their usual policy. It's great to hear that they were also very accommodating to your spinach and kiwi allergies both onsite and on DCL. Those are not part of the "big 8" allergens, so it's nice to know they are just as careful with them as they are with things like nuts, eggs, dairy, etc.

My DS5 has an allergy to treenuts (severe, and we found out about it at Disney World), and coconut.

We had a great experience at all the restaurants we visited after discovering his allergy. Here is where we ate":
Rainforest Cafe (Animal Kingdom)
Chef Mickeys Breakfast & Dinner
Crystal Palace Lunch
HolyWood & Vine lunch
Cape May Cafe, Breakfast
Tonys Town Square
San Angel Inn
Garden Grill
Ohana dinner
Mickeys Backyard BBQ
Cinderellas Royal Table


The chefs are great they will take care of all allergies and make sure you stay safe.

Excellent!! We're planning to eat at a few of the places you mentioned, so this is a relief that they handled it well. DS8's allergies have not been severe the few times he's had a reaction, but I know that could change any time. That's the scariest thing about this, that you can't judge how severe the next reaction could be based on the last reaction. So we never take any chances, and we're very careful about cross contamination especially. Avoiding foods that contain the actual allergen is the easy part...cross contamination when away from home is the hard part.