Suggestions for inexpensive food at DLR or DCA?

[Lynzer Torte]

The fruit is always delicious! I love the grapes and the pineapple spears. The mango with lime is also great.

We also always buy a "fruit cup" which is actually a box at Whitewater Snacks at the GCH. It contains watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, pineapple, and strawberries. My DS (16 months) loves fruit--so much so that I jokingly call him my fruit bat--and he usually can get 2-3 meals worth of fruit out of it as it's a huge portion.

I will have to agree with another poster, Rancho Del Zoccolo is really a great place. The food is good and inexpensive. You can split a meal and get a couple of cups of soup or a salad and a plate of the AMAZING fruit (i think we should start a DL fruit club ) The portions are pretty big and I have never been disappointed there. My favorites are the enchiladas and the broiled chicken.
We had the burritos last week, and although really huge, I didnt really like them. The chicken was a bit dry. But that may have only been that day and you can order them with just veggies and beans rather than beef or chicken.
We almost always eat at the RDZ and get a bottle of water to refill later and get out of there for about 24-. Now, we really could split a plate but for some reason we don't.But we always leave there saying "oh I should have worn sweat pants, arrgggg lets go fall asleep on the Mark Twain River Boat for a while"
Hey, what ever you do, for sure check out the menus that another poster mentioned. You can get locations, and costs.
You all are going to have a blast!!
Oh! it is a good idea to have snacks in the room so when you get to the park, you arent famished and just say oh heck with it, ice cream for breakfast!

Throw me in the DLR fruit fan camp as well! DLR has some of the best fruit around. I don't know what they do to it - probably sprinkle it with magic - but it is good throughout the resort. Whether I go to a carts in the middle of one of the parks and buy a pineapple spear or get a heaping serving of fruit salad at a character buffet, the fruit is always juicy and delicious and at the peak of ripeness. I LOVE pineapple and cantaloupe and theirs could not be any sweeter. I don't even like honeydew melon as a rule because I find it kind of bland, but at DLR it is yummy! The strawberries are usually big. The bananas are at that perfect stage of ripeness where there is no green or brown on the peel, only bright yellow.

When I referred my friend from Atlanta to Goofy's Kitchen (certainly not an inexpensive place, but lots of good food) last July, she was very pleased with it but she specifically mentioned that the fruit at the buffet was some of the best she has ever had in her life.

No. What I meant was...the previous posters that were talking about great fruit in the parks...I think they might have been talking about the bananas, oranges, and apples you can get at the stands.

I believe the posters include those as well as the chopped up fruits sold in bowls.

 

[LucyDingo]

I believe the posters include those as well as the chopped up fruits sold in bowls.

I see. Sorry. I hadn't memorized what people said previously. Nor did I feel like taking the time to reread the entire thread. When I read it the first time, I thought they were just talking about the whole fruit.

Personally, I rarely get fruit in the parks. I will get the little container of veggies and ranch. And the occasional dill pickle. I did enjoy the fruit plate I got once at the mexican restaurant at DL (can't recall the name of the place.)

 

[Tasscrapper]

About sharing...we are expending more energy, but we just don't get mega-hungry while outside in hotter places than we're used to. We barely go to festivals anymore, b/c it's sad to NOT be hungry for strawberry shortcakes or the other goodies they have a FolkLife and, um, Bumbershoot, let alone broiling-hot Ren Faires. Our stomachs just sort of shut down when it's too hot for us, no matter how much extra energy we're using.



Bumpershoot the heat effects me the same way too that I don't get hungry very much. I was really surprized when we went the end of August that we weren't hungrier because we covered a ton of ground on that trip with just me and my husband. We had season passes to our local amusement park last summer and I would get sick to my stomache if I didn't eat something every couple hours. I really found that it was much better to have things to snack on throughout the day, especially if it was slilghtly salty. Normally it was just crackers or a granola bar but it really kept the nausousness down. When the weather is cooler it really isn't a problem for me. (The nausousness.)