Nutrition info?

[doglover22]

My husband was just diagnosed as being diabetic (type 2) and he has a carb intake level he has to reach at each meal. We are making our first WDW trip in November and I was wondering if nutrition info is avaliable at the counter service places. We only have one table service scheduled (CHef Mickey) so the rest of the time we will be doing CS. Thanks

Brandi

 

[wdhinn89]

My son is a type 1 diabetic and neither restraunts or TS have carb counts. We always carry around the Calorie King book with us. It has carb counts for many foods including take out.

Good luck and it gets easier with time.

 

[Tricia1972]

Allears has a Disney with Diabetes section that may be helpful to you. http://allears.net/pl/diabetes.htm

It focuses mostly on Type 1, but hopefully you can take something with it that will help you. If not, you can check on the DISabilities board right here on the Dis.

 

[ConnieB]

Contact Disney and make that request.....I'm about 99% sure that it's a national law (and not just my state), but all restaurants are required to make available nutrition information for all of their foods. The type of restaurant does not matter, it can be the fancy places, the fast food, even the catering truck that stops at job sites must have it available for the asking.

Now...Disney may tell you that they don't have that information to send to you, and that you have to wait and ask at each restaurant, so you won't be able to plan ahead, but like I said, I'm fairly sure it's a national law.

 

[Tricia1972]

Contact Disney and make that request.....I'm about 99% sure that it's a national law (and not just my state), but all restaurants are required to make available nutrition information for all of their foods. The type of restaurant does not matter, it can be the fancy places, the fast food, even the catering truck that stops at job sites must have it available for the asking.

Now...Disney may tell you that they don't have that information to send to you, and that you have to wait and ask at each restaurant, so you won't be able to plan ahead, but like I said, I'm fairly sure it's a national law.

Certainly anyone can check with Disney to verify. However I know that many here have checked with Disney, myself included, and they have no nutritional information for any of their items that aren't pre-packaged/purchased from another vendor. The reasoning that they gave me is that the info changes with how each chef prepares it, so they are unable to provide nutritional information to the public. They do, however, provide ingredient lists.

I for one would love to see it, but at this time it isn't available.

From Allears:

Nutrition Information Books at Counter Service

We heard a lot about these and with high expectations based on typical Disney execution were anxious to see how they help address the dietary need for type 1 diabetics to count carbohydrates. They don't.

You typical McDonald's does a better job of making dietary information available than Disney does with any of the nutrition notebooks we saw. I asked for them at a lot of different counter service places. About half the people asked had no idea what I was talking about. There is typically one book per counter service eatery. Finding it is half the battle.

They are poorly organized (if organized at all) bad photo copies of vendor wrappers and packaging that have no constant layout, data content or presentation bundled into a black looseleaf notebook. Some have section tabs and a few of those actually have the contents collected into the sections the tabs identify.

Clearly the goal was to collect information on ingredients not nutrition information. There are food labels where they could find something to copy but nowhere near all food items on the menu have food labels.

I would have been impressed if a street vendor had this kind of information but this is the Walt Disney Corporation. In the words of the Pixar villain Syndrome, Lame! Lame! Lame! Lame!

 

[doglover22]

Thanks for the replies. It really is dissapointing to hear that there is nothing avaliable. I have heard such great things about how Disney takes care of those with other dietary needs (allergies, lactose-free, glutien-free, etc) that I am honestly surprised they have left out diabetics.