Sugar Free jello for kids dessert,You gotta be kidding

[cougartrace]

The problem with fruit is that many young children have allergies with certain fruit.

 

[Esmerelda]

Geeze....I really don't think sugar free jello is all that bad (and neither do any of my 3 boys...ages 21, 15 and 12)??

What do I think is bad....hmmm? How about the 2 year old we saw last year at WDW with Mountain Dew in a a sippy cup....OH MY GOD....this stuff is loaded with caffeine and enough sugar to rot out all baby teeth and cause renal failure if drank enough every day.

Hmmm...or how about the parents that smoke right next to their child..or in a closed up car...or at home....can you say asthma, or lung cancer?

Statistics show that today, 10% of 2-to 5-year-olds and more than 15% of children between the ages of 6 and 19 are overweight. If you combine the percent of kids who are overweight with the percent of kids who are at risk of becoming overweight, about one out of three children are affected. How sad is that.

Futhermore, all hospitals do serve sugar free jello. Wow, I haven't heard of any one patient having a health problem with sf jello.....now how weird is that? I also would vote for the fresh fruit for kids.

Esmerelda

 

[dizkids]

I vote for fresh fruit....how about 1 or 2 strawberries or a few grapes...and apple slices are coming prepacked nowadays.

Jello cost pennies to make so i am sure that is the main reason we are getting it offered.

 

[jojoandhb]

I don't see why everyone makes a big deal out of the jello. Besides i know for a fact that you can get a different dessert at almost every location, jello is just the usual dessert that comes with it. And no matter what dessert Disney offers you will always have those that don't like it, no matter what it is.

The good thing about the DDP, is if you want some ice cream, you can always use your snack for the day and get a Mickey Ice Cream bar or something. I don't know about anyone else but i don't have a dessert with lunch or dinner everyday when i am at home, or on vacations for that matter.

With all of the things going on during your stay at Walt Disney World, i would think worrying about Jello would be the last thing on my mind.

I agree. I was trying to think of the last time we had dessert with lunch or dinner. I think it was my birthday when we had cake. Other than that, my DF and daughter get an occasional ice cream from the ice cream truck. (I have a medical condition the doesn't allow me to eat it) I can't imagine eating dessert at every meal while on vacation. Plus, if you can substitute, then it's a non-issue as far as I'm concerned.

 

[cougartrace]

Same here, if you don't want it, don't eat it. Like someone else said, you can use your snack credits to get dessert-type things or have the kids share some of the adults' desserts. I think its great that Disney isn't outright offering kids cake and ice cream for every meal, in a society where 15% of children are obese. I realize that it is up to the parents to decide what their child eats, but if Disney isn't offering kids a whole slice of cake or an ice cream sundae for every single meal, these items are less acessible and at least its a step in the right direction.

well, my son is severly under weight and has been given the permission and will to eat anything with alot of calories right now. So, I don't have a problem with healthy items as long as other items are still provided.

 

[n2mm]

Maybe everyone should drop off their SF jello at the guest relations desk at each park on their way out each day. Maybe if they end up with hundreds of SF jello each day they may get the point.

 

[bicker]

The problem with fruit is that many young children have allergies with certain fruit.

Perhaps. I think also that fruit is significantly more expensive than Jell-o.

 

[emma'smom]

However, this SF jello isn't even GOOD sf jello. It is cheap, watery sf jello. The kind that used to be part of free lunch programs in the elementary school where I used to teach.

Fine if folks want to pay oop or use a snack credit (and great that Disney will make substitutions) but it just seems like a flawed system overall that assumes that folks will know to ask for subsitutions.

What's wrong with regular jello?

 

[GrumpyOne]

Okay, I know this is not the first time for a thread about kids DP options, but I have to vent. We got back this afternoon and I must say I still Love the DDP, but what are they thinking? The only dessert option at CS was sugar free jello, and even the CMs say it is awful.

Which CS didn't offer anything else?

 

[Disneytwinz]

Maybe everyone should drop off their SF jello at the guest relations desk at each park on their way out each day. Maybe if they end up with hundreds of SF jello each day they may get the point.

Not a bad idea!!

How about they change all the Main Street Bakery/goodie stand items to SF Jell-o too with applesauce as an option. Many adult guests on vacation don't need the extra sugar either, just like the kids don't!! I wonder how that would go over?

 

[Disneytwinz]

It sounds as if the jell-o is made on premises. Which would require someone to make it, refrigeration space and containers to put it in. Those can be costly.
I would rather my kids be given the option of having fruit instead, but we'll see when we get there. If it doesn't work out I simply won't buy into the dining plan on our next visit for my family of 7. Which will then just force us to bring/buy foods from outside and not buy foods on site.

My family doesn't eat dessert at dinner and lunch everyday, however we have snacks in between (green beans, walnuts, fruit, rice cakes- good stuff) which are important for healthy eating. Moderation is key.When we are on vacation we eat like piggies and I allow my kids to do the same, with some limits of course. I also don't think 1 week at Disney World is going to alter my 5 children's eating habits, which have been instilled at home. That's laughable!

I don't think the original poster said she would rather have dessert foods saturated in fat and sugar etc. on the kids menu. I think, and I could be wrong, that meant that she would rather there be a better choice in foods on the kids dessert menu. If there are substitutions, I hope Allears will jot them down soon.

 

[DaisyD]

The jello we had had a cup with foil over it just like the ones in the store. I think it has some kind of writing on it. I seriously doubt Disney makes it on property.

 

[TDC Nala]

Yes, healthy foods should be offered...but Jello? We're on vacation, not in a stay in the hospital! YUCK! And yes, the DDP is a great discount, but you are still paying for it. (unless you are one of those lucky fools that got the free DDP). Why not just give a variety of healthy choices to chose from? Or smaller portions?

Probably because the dining plan costs only $11 per day for kids. You get what you pay for.

No way that jello is made on premises. Fresh fruit is very perishable and harder to store, and more expensive to replace.

 

[ReneeA]

I must be the odd person here.

I really don't care that's all that is offered. My kids both know at their very young age that they eat what is put in front of them. If they choose not to eat it, that's fine...but they wouldn't even know to complain about something like that.

If I thought they were still hungry, I would let them have my dessert.

I just cannot see obsessing about something so incredibly trivial.

Butof course, JMHO...

 

[pixiepower1971]

They do offer applesauce and it is SUGAR FREE!


We usually pay OOP for all meals when we go. 99% of the time, both of my daughters will order off the adult menu. The meals are big and they can split one with each other. If they don't want the same thing, thats ok...I would rather them eat what they want, what they like, and the adult menu usually has a few more healthy alternatives then the kids(tastier too!)

As for the DDP, when we do use it, we upgrade DD8 to the adult plan. It is worth every penny! It gives them so many choices and is still cheaper then eating out for dinner at home. I would do that even for ayounger child, say 5/6. If I am eating steak and shrimp for dinner, I want my kids to eat it as well. DD10 is a skinny ballerina and she still eats her $$ worth of the adult meals.

I agree, the kids meals at CS and TS are not great. Its really a shame. But as someone else said, you get what you pay for.

 

[MosMom]

We have been since the new kids menus went into effect and never had a problem. We would simply ask for something else. I think one place had jello only. It really wasn't a big deal at all!

 

[MosMom]

The jello is not made there. It is Jell-o single serving containers with the sealed foil lid. I love this debate. SOOO many threads about Jell-o.

 

[Chester's Mum]

Geeze....
Statistics show that today, 10% of 2-to 5-year-olds and more than 15% of children between the ages of 6 and 19 are overweight. If you combine the percent of kids who are overweight with the percent of kids who are at risk of becoming overweight, about one out of three children are affected. How sad is that.

Esmerelda

I don't think sugar free jello on a two week vacation is the solution to childhood obesity.

I think it was a cost based decision and not a health based decision.

That said, I sometimes share a disney meal with my dd, as it is too much to eat alone, I wouldn't have a problem letting my kids have my dessert.

 

[RACHELSMOM1]

It sounds as if the jell-o is made on premises. Which would require someone to make it, refrigeration space and containers to put it in. Those can be costly.
I would rather my kids be given the option of having fruit instead, but we'll see when we get there. If it doesn't work out I simply won't buy into the dining plan on our next visit for my family of 7. Which will then just force us to bring/buy foods from outside and not buy foods on site.

My family doesn't eat dessert at dinner and lunch everyday, however we have snacks in between (green beans, walnuts, fruit, rice cakes- good stuff) which are important for healthy eating. Moderation is key.When we are on vacation we eat like piggies and I allow my kids to do the same, with some limits of course. I also don't think 1 week at Disney World is going to alter my 5 children's eating habits, which have been instilled at home. That's laughable!

I don't think the original poster said she would rather have dessert foods saturated in fat and sugar etc. on the kids menu. I think, and I could be wrong, that meant that she would rather there be a better choice in foods on the kids dessert menu. If there are substitutions, I hope Allears will jot them down soon.

You are so right. I did not want desserts saturated in fats and sugar, I just believe we should all have more choices, even our children. They are on vacation too. Fruit options would be good to add. My kids love fruit, but a sweet dessert or snack is not going to harm my skinny little children, especially after they have walked so many miles throughout WDW. They are so tired by the time we stop to eat, and we all eat like we are famished by then - our bodies need the extra calories. This is so fresh in my mind because we just got home from WDW 2 days ago (we are all still resting up from all the walking) and we can hardly wait to go back in June. Choices or not, we love DDP.

 

[RACHELSMOM1]

Which CS didn't offer anything else?

ASMusic food court. However, CM said we could get different dessert and she would charge it as adult CS, since (as she said, not me) the CS meals were not seperated for child and adult.