QS meals for DS2 with milk allergy?

[1osfan]

We are planning our first trip to WDW this summer and have a 2 year old who is allergic to milk. I have read so much about how great Disney is in their TS restaurants when it comes to dealing with allergies, but I can not find much information about QS locations. For financial reasons, we are not doing the DDP, and we expect to eat many QS meals throughout our stay.

Has anyone taken a young child with a milk allergy to WDW? Am I going to have trouble finding food for him in the parks? Will we have a small selection or a decent number of items to choose from? And how easy is it to find the allergy information I need when we are in the parks?

Also, does anyone have knowledge of the food at POP? I assume we will get food at the hotel at times.

Thank you very much!

 

[Selket]

My son doesn't have a milk allergy but has other serious food allergies. There is a new office at WDW that handles dietary requests and issues and the contact info can be found in the FAQ.

For previous trips we would contact someone at WDW (Brenda) and she would email us lists of safe and unsafe items in the carts and some CS places.

My guess is that you will have a decent # of items to choose from (with a 2 year old perhaps they tend to eat many similar things each meal). Each CS place has a binder with ingredient info but I've found this extremely cumbersome and tedious to look at - especially if the place is crowded. You end up waiting in a substantial line just to get the binder or you have to cut in front of lots of people to work your way up to the counter to ask someone for the book - it just is not pretty either way. Then the binder is HUGE - H*U*G*E - you would need to take it home to figure it all out.

I'm just saying I'd deal with that office to figure out some things that your child will eat before you go - and know where they are served. Map out your QS restaurants before you go.

I would expect the CS at Pop to be able to handle your requests as well as the parks - if not better. They would be harder to contact beforehand.

 

[mechurchlady]

I ran into the binder at Pooh Corner in DLR. A long list of bakery items with ingredients. As stated above you need to talk to special diets and read FAQs stickied on this board.

They do have dairy free foods and you can bring snacks into the parks. Ener G buns tend to be gluten, cassein, lactose free. It may take longer for special foods but you should get the list from special diets that will let you know ahead of time what you can and cannot have.

http://sleepingbean.blogspot.com/
She has her trip and someone in that group is gluten and dairy free.

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cach....doc+wdw+dairy+free&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
That is something I found that is like what you get from the special diets people probably. It is a start for you to look at and there are some things not on the menu like the cassein free tapioca rolls for burgers. It is a start at least.

 

[1osfan]

Thanks for the help!

One other question... My child who has a milk allergy is only 2 years old. Since we will not be paying for him at the ADRs that we are scheduling, will they still accomodate his allergy? I guess my question is actually, has anyone had experience with this?

Thanks again!

 

[mechurchlady]

Thanks for the help!

One other question... My child who has a milk allergy is only 2 years old. Since we will not be paying for him at the ADRs that we are scheduling, will they still accomodate his allergy? I guess my question is actually, has anyone had experience with this?

Thanks again!

Yes, it does not matter age or paying or not. You would get a toddler meal that is casein free.

 

[clanmcculloch]

Also, does anyone have knowledge of the food at POP? I assume we will get food at the hotel at times.

When you're talking to Brenda (as suggested in a previous reply), ask to have one of the chefs from Pop contact you. We were there in February and spoke with chef Dan. He's so amazing (as are all of them). Whomever you speak with will gladly go through what kinds of foods they do have.

In February, they had the Galaxy Foods soy choose, Tofutti and Rice Dream ice cream, Silk single serving milks (chocolate and vanilla though no Very vanilla) and would cook with either soy or rice milk. My daughter was eating mac & cheese and chicken fingers every night for dinner and loved having her waffles every morning for breakfast (in addition to milk, she also can't have gluten but there was no problem). They have dairy free brownies and cookies available there as well. The Itzkadoodle popsicles and frozen strawberry bars are also milk free.

Make sure to place your son's order first as it will take a while to make his food. We typically went into the gift shop while waiting and in the morning I'd place the breakfast order when going down for coffee then I went back to the room to get everybody else.

For the parks, I created a spreadsheet for myself of which QS locations carried what snack and meal items and kept it in my purse. This safed me a lot of headaches because I knew exactly where to go to get different foods. I built this spreadsheet from the info that Brenda sent me. Of course I think since it's only one allergy that you're dealing with you might even be good with just printing out the info she sends to you. I had to combine several for multiple allergies.

At the ice cream carts all over the parks, the frozen bananas and the frozen strawberry bars are milk free. The frozen bananas are so good that I got inspired to make them at home. It's a great use for bananas when they're starting to brown. I picked up popsicle sticks at a craft store.

 

[09disvac]

We are planning our first trip to WDW this summer and have a 2 year old who is allergic to milk. I have read so much about how great Disney is in their TS restaurants when it comes to dealing with allergies, but I can not find much information about QS locations. For financial reasons, we are not doing the DDP, and we expect to eat many QS meals throughout our stay.

Has anyone taken a young child with a milk allergy to WDW? Am I going to have trouble finding food for him in the parks? Will we have a small selection or a decent number of items to choose from? And how easy is it to find the allergy information I need when we are in the parks?

Also, does anyone have knowledge of the food at POP? I assume we will get food at the hotel at times.

Thank you very much!

We are taking our milk, egg, peanut allergic DS on our first trip next week. We have a pretty good thread going and there have been some really great tips to help. We will make sure to let you know how it goes and will pass on any tips we can.

Do the chocolate covered bananas have peanuts on them???

 

[pudge the fish]

last time I was there (last week) the bananas DO have crushed peanuts on them.

I used to love the frozen 'naners but now they do not make my tummy happy with the peanut pieces- now if they dipped them in smooth PB it's be fine

the Itsakadoozie bars are yummy though turn your lips all kinds of colors

the GF/dairy free/nut free brownies are yummy but I am one who doesn't care for the cookies. lots do though.