SEVERE egg allergy (child) and character breakfasts?

[TravelingCircus]

My daughter has a life threatening egg allergy -- are there any restaurants at Disney that are more accommodating of this? (especially for breakfast) How are food allergies handled there?

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Disney is fabulous about accommodating food allergies. When you make an ADR there is a box you can check if you have special dietary requirements and you can list it there. The chef typically comes out and lets you know what you can eat (at buffets or on the menu) and can even make something special to accommodate an allergy (even at buffets).

 

[DisneyFamily123]

Also contact special dietary requests. DS also has egg allergy. I can't think of one Disney restaurant where this was a problem. Chef comes to the table, covers the menu, offers to cook special items. If Buffet, Chef will walk the buffet with you and offer to cook special items. For breakfast, all the character breakfasts -- the chef separately prepared no egg pancakes or mickey waffles. Even at the All Stars food court, the Chef prepared a special batter and cooked pancakes separately for DS. Have a great trip!

Special Dietary Requests
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/guest-services/special-dietary-requests/

 

[TravelingCircus]

This is wonderful to hear -- eating out can be so difficult!

 

[DisneyFamily123]

This is wonderful to hear -- eating out can be so difficult!

You will love Disney. DS had peanut and egg allergy... Finally growing out of both.... more testing to confirm egg gone. At home, it was always frustrating because the wait staff and the "Chef" at most places just couldn't be trusted...

At Disney, you will get to meet the Chef at your table to plan a custom meal. That's why we did the deluxe dining plan --- the table service restaurants are much easier to accommodate. Counter service is more difficult and more of the responsibility is on you to look through ingredient lists, etc...

 

[DeeCeeSW]

You will love Disney. DS had peanut and egg allergy... Finally growing out of both.... more testing to confirm egg gone.

May I ask how old your DS is? Mine is 10 and also has peanut & egg allergies. We were hoping he would grow out of the egg but were told that peanut was unlikely. We have started having DS eat foods where egg is baked in and not a main ingredient. So far so good. He had a breaded pork chop and a piece of Entenmann's cake the other day and was very pleased, LOL.

 

[amarberry]

I am also the parent of a child with a very severe egg allergy. My DD is almost 7, so we've been dealing with this for a while. We love traveling to WDW because they are so accommodating.

You will have plenty of options at the table service meals. The chefs are very knowledgable regarding ingredients and have allergy friendly options available.

One thing to be careful about at buffets is cross contamination. I usually ask the chef to bring out my DD's food from the kitchen because if someone used, for example, the fresh fruit serving spoon on a salad with a mayo based dressing, it could be a big problem for DD.

At CS restaurants, there are binders at the cash registers with ingredient listings. As of last year, the CS mac and cheese had eggs in it, but they had Amy's mac and cheese available as an alternative.

 

[disfan07]

I have peanut, egg and shellfish allergies.

How old is your daughter? Unless she is under 10, I would try and only do lunch and dinner buffets unless it is only for the characters. We have found that the price of the breakfast buffet is not worth it at all if you can't eat eggs. But that's JMO.

The chef's are great at accomodating allergies but it's hard to go to a breaksfast buffet if you can't eat eggs. But, it might be different for her. If she's never eaten eggs she's probably used to it and it probably doesn't make that much of a difference. I was able to eat eggs for 18 1/2 years until I was diagnosed 3 years ago. Since I still remember what it all taste like, I still don't like going to breakfast buffets (or even out to breakfast) because of the eggs.

 

[DisneyFamily123]

May I ask how old your DS is? Mine is 10 and also has peanut & egg allergies. We were hoping he would grow out of the egg but were told that peanut was unlikely. We have started having DS eat foods where egg is baked in and not a main ingredient. So far so good. He had a breaded pork chop and a piece of Entenmann's cake the other day and was very pleased, LOL.

DS is 5 now. Discovered egg allergy at 1st birthday - broke out red all over face. Had same reaction when eating something that was probably just cooked on the same grill as eggs. Mild peanut allergy was identified in testing only... but he never ate anything with peanuts anyway. It was just at his 5th birthday that the testing came back negative. He had an item with egg and no reaction... so the next test will be solid egg.

Funny thing is... he doesn't eat anything with egg anyway (cake, etc.) because he's just not used to eating those things. He makes up for the lake of sugar with his cravings for Oreo cookies though...!

I still keep Benadryl and an EpiPen handy.....

 

[TravelingCircus]

I am also the parent of a child with a very severe egg allergy. My DD is almost 7, so we've been dealing with this for a while. We love traveling to WDW because they are so accommodating.

You will have plenty of options at the table service meals. The chefs are very knowledgable regarding ingredients and have allergy friendly options available.

One thing to be careful about at buffets is cross contamination. I usually ask the chef to bring out my DD's food from the kitchen because if someone used, for example, the fresh fruit serving spoon on a salad with a mayo based dressing, it could be a big problem for DD.

At CS restaurants, there are binders at the cash registers with ingredient listings. As of last year, the CS mac and cheese had eggs in it, but they had Amy's mac and cheese available as an alternative.

It's good to know they can do that at the buffets -- bring from the back -- I was really worried about this. DD would end up at ER with that kind of cross contamination. She's 8 but we have been dealing with this allergy since she was 1.