Packing snacks

[shavens]

I read somewhere a tip. Pack a hardsided suitcase with non-perishable snacks, cereal bars, crackers, Whatever you like. Check it with your luggage and then you will have snacks in your room. This would work out very well for me since I eat a lot of protein bars. Do any of you know if this is ok to do? Thanks

 

[riley2008]

Yes, it's fine to do and lots of people do it. You don't need a hard-sided suitcase it you don't have one. We used shoe boxes to pack snacks - we even chanced it with fresh fruit (grapes, cherries, and apples) and gel packs with great results. (You do take a risk of losing luggage and then have to deal with rotten fruit.)

 

[pennymom]

Welcome to the DIS!

We pack lots of snacks and food to take...like small coffee pot w/coffee, sugar, creamer, etc., small boxes of cereal for quick breakfasts, dried fruit, granola bars, crackers, and juice boxes (double bagged in ziplock bags). And napkins, plastic plated and bowls, cups, a sharp knife, etc. We have also ordered some perishables delivered to the hotel from Garden Grocer, such as milk, bananas, bottled water, cheese and fruit.

The more you take, the less you need to buy while there, and all that room in your suitcases can be used for souvenirs and gifts to take home!

ETA: You just need to pad everything well with clothes or use shoe boxes as a PP said. No need at all for a hard sided suitcase!

 

[Dizneydaz]

Yes, as PP have said, you don't need to have a hard-sided suitcase as long as you protect the items inside. Put anything that can leak inside of ziplocs. Then you'll have lots of ziplocs to use while there. Large ones are great to carry on Kali Rapids to put your items in that you don't want to get wet. The thingy in the center doesn't keep things dry enough for me. (cell phones, cameras, etc.) Also it doesn't hurt to carry a few smaller ones for leftovers. Great for snacks.

A few years back when I go home one of my suitcases had something all over the outside. I thought it was from the plane hold. When I got home I discovered it was from my own shampoo bottle-the lid had popped open and the shampoo went everywhere. Luckily shampoo washes out! Anyway now I put anything liquidy in a sealed ziploc.

When you go to take out restaurants in your area and you have leftover condiments you may want to take them with you to WDW. Things like mayo, relish, mustard, honey, cream cheese, peanut butter, etc.

 

[irishsharon]

anyone bring boxed wine?

 

[gr8mommy]

anyone bring boxed wine?

GREAT idea!

 

[tnd]

Do you all think this advice is still cost-effective with the restrictions on weight and cost per bag for checking luggage? I'm debating it, but I think I may just do a Garden Grocer order for bottled water, diet coke and some breakfast snacks. I am really hoping we only have to check one large bag and they are so strict with weight now.

 

[sweetdana]

Boxed-wine or any liquid, runs the risk of ruining everything in your suitcase along with others under yours. Imagine, being the suitcase under someone else's who leaked due to pressure on flight. ..

I pack dry snacks, cereal, fruit snacks, granola, cracker jacks, twizzlers, goldfish, goldfish, and more goldfish.

For bottled water, pop, Wine not priced direct from Disney ect.. You could do a 1 day rental car and drive to the store. You can pick it up at the airport and drop off everything at your room, then drop the car off at the Disney World rental car location. (They will drive you back to hotel.) About 1/2 doz different rental car companies. Enterprise doesn't charge the 50$ drop off fee for diff location, when starting at an airport and ending not at an airport. Other might too.. I don't know. It will run you a 1 day rental car fee, but you will get out of 1 ME trip, and trip to the store, and even dinner off site if you wanted.)

 

[wendydarling826]

Since our airline allows 2 checked bags per person, I'm packing one suitcase with boxed wine and snacks - hopefully they'll all make it, it's the first time I've done this. I'm going to put the wine boxes inside giant ziploc bags and the other things inside ziploc plastic bags too.

 

[ShannonN]

Just a thought, but a couple years ago we packed a box and put all kinds of non-perishable snacks inside and sent it by UPS to the resort a couple of days before we were due to arrive. We received a tracking # from UPS which made it easy to track and confirmation that it was delivered. When we got to the resort I called the front desk and they sent it right up no problems. It worked out really good. We also used Garden Grocer another time which went really well too. Hope this helps.

DH DS ME

 

[beansmom]

if it's just protein bars, i'd just toss 'em in my suitcase...other than that, i'd use garden grocer. Quick, easy, convenient and not terribly expensive.

Our first trip we packed lots of snacks and ate very few of them. No matter how favorite a snack, a dole whip sounds better.

 

[creativemomnc]

you could also put cereal in sandwich size bags ( I do this b/c the little boxes don't have enough cereal in them for what we eat)

 

[penjen]

I'm actually packing a box of food and our coffee maker this year. It is also being delivered by Magic Express too. I had read a thread about using a box instead of a suitcase and a few people have done it. Hopefully mine will be making the journey too. This is on Southwest. I don't know about other airlines

 

[budbeerlady]

I always throw a couple of boxes of Pop Tarts into my carry-on. They are great for breakfast and save me room to take stuff home.