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I feel terrible! 
But that shall be explained in a second. You see, I was wondering if anyone has ever been to Disney, or been there with someone, who had a very odd food allergy. Here is my dilema: I just recently developed a rather severe allergy to citric acid. It's one of the world's top preservatives and if you look at ingredients at your local grocery store, it's in just about everything. I have a reaction if something is so much as fried in butter that has this in it, and while it's not life threatening, I wind up in a lot of pain and basically bedroom bound for the next 24-48 hours once it gets into my system. Thats something I don't want to deal with on our honeymoon.
Now I understand that if you have PS you can call ahead and speak to the chef, but my husband and I have NEVER been sit down restaurant people, were too spontaneous so we only have 5 PS reservations.
Now what I'm worried about is the rest of the trip. It's a weird allergy b/c I can have certain brands of things, like Tops brand macaroni and cheese, but I can't have other brands of the same thing, such as Kraft mac&cheese, since different companies use different preservatives. Now we will have fridges in our rooms, so were set for little snacks and breakfast, but I'm terrified of having an allergic reaction on our honeymoon and spoiling a good 2 or 3 days because of it! Does anyone have any recommendations on what to do about this, or any idea of where I could find out what brands Disney uses? ? Is there perhaps a list of ingredients online somewhere?
Now this is why I'm upset. I've already called Disney a few times to ask the same thing, that way I know what is safe to eat at the food courts, but the CM's I have spoken to have been flat out nasty. I feel bad enough troubling them over this, and have been really nice and patient since it's obviously unsual, but I did not need them telling me they could not help me. I understand that THEY can't help me but I thought they could give me a central number so I wouldn't have to call each and every single individual food court and stop in the parks. I had been thought that ALL of Disney would use the same brands, etc. but 2 CM's told me they "doubted it." Whatever happened to the Disney pledge of accomodating all allergies?
So does anyone have any ideas? I feel horrible because I know my DH and I's future travels will be limited b/c of this allergy, but I had at least hoped that Disney could accomodate it. I wanted to take care of this all before we left so I could memorize what was safe for me and what was not before we went, that way my husband would not have to watch me scanning ingredients the entire time. Thank you all so much for any help b/c I'm really starting to get discouraged!
But that shall be explained in a second. You see, I was wondering if anyone has ever been to Disney, or been there with someone, who had a very odd food allergy. Here is my dilema: I just recently developed a rather severe allergy to citric acid. It's one of the world's top preservatives and if you look at ingredients at your local grocery store, it's in just about everything. I have a reaction if something is so much as fried in butter that has this in it, and while it's not life threatening, I wind up in a lot of pain and basically bedroom bound for the next 24-48 hours once it gets into my system. Thats something I don't want to deal with on our honeymoon.Now I understand that if you have PS you can call ahead and speak to the chef, but my husband and I have NEVER been sit down restaurant people, were too spontaneous so we only have 5 PS reservations.
Now what I'm worried about is the rest of the trip. It's a weird allergy b/c I can have certain brands of things, like Tops brand macaroni and cheese, but I can't have other brands of the same thing, such as Kraft mac&cheese, since different companies use different preservatives. Now we will have fridges in our rooms, so were set for little snacks and breakfast, but I'm terrified of having an allergic reaction on our honeymoon and spoiling a good 2 or 3 days because of it! Does anyone have any recommendations on what to do about this, or any idea of where I could find out what brands Disney uses? ? Is there perhaps a list of ingredients online somewhere?
Now this is why I'm upset. I've already called Disney a few times to ask the same thing, that way I know what is safe to eat at the food courts, but the CM's I have spoken to have been flat out nasty. I feel bad enough troubling them over this, and have been really nice and patient since it's obviously unsual, but I did not need them telling me they could not help me. I understand that THEY can't help me but I thought they could give me a central number so I wouldn't have to call each and every single individual food court and stop in the parks. I had been thought that ALL of Disney would use the same brands, etc. but 2 CM's told me they "doubted it." Whatever happened to the Disney pledge of accomodating all allergies?
So does anyone have any ideas? I feel horrible because I know my DH and I's future travels will be limited b/c of this allergy, but I had at least hoped that Disney could accomodate it. I wanted to take care of this all before we left so I could memorize what was safe for me and what was not before we went, that way my husband would not have to watch me scanning ingredients the entire time. Thank you all so much for any help b/c I'm really starting to get discouraged!
WONDERFUL 
And I had no idea that you could take food into the parks either! Do you need a doctors note for when you enter the park with food? Have you ever been stopped doing that? Thanks so much!
