Thread for allergy foods updates

[BusyMom2Three]

We have the dining plan. I have been told they will accomodate my son even if it is not typically on the kids menu for no extra charge because of his allergies. Is that correct?

Yes, that's correct. Even if they have to give him an adult option or something not on the menu, you won't be charged extra.

 

[AEPaul]

We started AllergyEats Disney World (allergyeats.com/disney) as a spin-off of the successful AllergyEats site for exactly this reason - so that our community can hear first-hand from other food-allergic diners what their experiences are / have been. If you are going to WDW soon, as we are again (7 in the family, 3 with fa), check out AllergyEats Disney World before you go (recognize however that we've been live for just 2 months). If you've just gone, PLEASE HELP OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY by rating your restaurant experiences there! We also just published a great interview with Chef Joel Schaefer, guru behind Disney's food-allergy excellence, on the AllergyEats Blog (allergyeats.com/blog). Hope you enjoy our site and find it useful in your travels!
P.S. Sorry I can't post the links. I haven't posted 10 times yet.

 

[disney fan4]

busyMom2Three, livndisney, and ls15, thanks for the responses. My son never complains about not getting to eat the same food as his sister, but I try to make his food as comparable as possible. I want to be prepared and take his snack/dessert food with us if necessary so he has a magical trip also!

 

[DisneyAngie45]

My little cousin is allergic to eggs, milk and all nuts. She can have soy milk though. We want to take a girls trip to Disney in the future and stay on site, but we don't want her to feel left out because of the food. Is it an extra charge for accommodation? Can Disney help us?

 

[ls15]

My little cousin is allergic to eggs, milk and all nuts. She can have soy milk though. We want to take a girls trip to Disney in the future and stay on site, but we don't want her to feel left out because of the food. Is it an extra charge for accommodation? Can Disney help us?

Disney can help everyone. There is no extra charge. Contact Special Diets and go from there. I'm halfway through my trip, haven't gotten sick once, and ate amazing food. Because I was so careful to contact chefs in advance, and spoke to each of them individually, I've eaten amazingly so far. And all of them have brought in special food to make it even more magical!

 

[livndisney]

My little cousin is allergic to eggs, milk and all nuts. She can have soy milk though. We want to take a girls trip to Disney in the future and stay on site, but we don't want her to feel left out because of the food. Is it an extra charge for accommodation? Can Disney help us?

Per Special Diets (and personal experience) if you are not on the dining plan-there can be an additional charge. The cost is only supposed to be more when the allergen safe food costs more. For example, when dd could have soy- she would get a kids meal with soy milk-most places would try and charge more for the soy milk vs "regular" milk.

We have also been charged more for allergen free chicken and gluten free pizza.

That being said-yes Disney should be able to help you.

 

[mrichards28]

Thank you ls15 for starting this thread! My boyfriend and I are going down in May for 10 days, and I have a gluten allergy. I'm definitely going to be following this until then. =)

I loved the French Meadow brownies! Luckily, stores around me sell them. But that's what I wanted to talk about!

I bought a box of them in the store yesterday. But you know how at Disney the brownies were a pretty good size? In the box I just bought, they are half the size, but still $6 for a box of 9 small brownies. I was expecting them to be bigger. Maybe that's why they got too expensive for Disney to keep.

I may be wrong though! It would be awesome if they brought them back!

I look forward to keep reading!

 

[clanmcculloch]

In my experience, there's not an extra line item on a receipt that states "allergy surcharge" or anything like that, but you will see that specialty items like the OMG It's Gluten Free cookies will shop up as an allergy cookie and that is priced differently than a non-allergy counterpart. That's where the extra charge has been seen. Premade low allergen products are priced in the computers at a higher price than their standard counterparts. This is only a concern if you're paying OOP for your food. If you're using a dining plan then you'll be charged the same credit regardless of what you order.

I've only been offered sorbet at a few table service restaurants. Most carry Tofutti ice cream. I don't trust Rice Dream ice cream just because they don't seem to understand gluten since they claim that their milk is gluten free yet contains barley. They don't add barley to the ice cream but I just don't feel that I can trust them.

For those with egg allergies, the baked goods options are VERY limited I'm sorry to say. DD14 ate a lot of Tofutti and Enjoy Life products.

I'm extremely frustrated with the Special Diets department right now. Several chefs indicated that they weren't notified that we were coming. The chef in charge of the club lounge at Poly (where we were staying) talked to the rest of the chefs at our resort to discuss options for us since I had emailed her a copy of the form I sent to Special Diets so she knew all of our ADRs and she was also able to order in some safe foods for us. She never got any notification from Special Diets and neither did any of the other chefs she spoke with. She's the only reason any of those chefs knew we were coming. I'm so grateful to Chef Kim for everything she did for us and arranged for us.

I just had to share this. I FINALLY MET CHEF TJ!!!! He was so wonderful.

 

[ls15]

Just an update:
I've been here 8 days so far. All the chefs are amazing. The majority of them, including managers at the quick service, miss the Ener-G products. Many of the chefs special ordered items (including at our resort) because they knew we were coming.

I've eaten really well so far; I think I got a little sick once but it settled down after a bit so I'm not 100% sure. I've had a load of choices. I'll do a huge update when I get back.

We have no been charged any additional fees, and often, charged less than the original price for modifying items on the menu.

 

[eeyore7360nc]

Having been to WDW more times than I can count, I was a little apprehensive about my first trip since starting a gluten free diet. I just want to thank everyone on this thread for all the helpful suggestions.

Everywhere we ate was able to accomodate my needs, but a few things really stood out.

Being able to have real fried chicken at Fifties Prime Time almost brought a tear to this southern girl's eye. My friend tried the crust and could not believe it was gluten free.

The allergy free chicken tenders I got at Columbia Harbour House were delicious.

Having Chef TJ prepare a special dish for me at 1900 Park Fare when I would have been fine finding something on the buffet. I just wish I had not been too full to find out what he had in mind for my dessert.

 

[Shadow02]

We are gluten free and dairy free and prefer no eggs. We arrived yesterday and had a bad and good experience last night at dinner. W went to ESPN Zone and was told they could do gluten free but no dairy free as all the buns had dairy in them. I thought I read before they do not, even though they say that, but the chef was quite unenthused and I did not have the energy to argue after a long car ride. He also said the fries were fried with the chicken tenders and there was no oven there so they could not make any baked ones separately. We could have grapes he decided. LOL. So needless to say we left and took the boat over to Beaches and Cream. There we had burgers with gluten free buns (Udis so they do have eggs) and they had toffuti and wnrice dream ice cream. They also did fries- they get them from Hurricane Hannahs which has a designated fryer. It was good- we eat very organic/grassfed meats/etc at home so certainly it's a different quality than we are used to but we know coming down to Disney that is going to be the case.

After our terrible experience at ESPN I stopped in a Kouzzinas where we have a breakfast reservation just to make sure that we could eat there in the morning. The nicest chef Dee came out and assured me that they could do gluten,dairy, egg,and corn free Mickey waffles, chicken sausage, bacon, breads, etc. She was so nice and I just wanted to decide to eat every mea; there! Anyhow, we are headed there in a bit and I am hoping it goes as easy as she made it sound......

 

[Shadow02]

Hi again! Just an update that we ate at Kouzzinas this morning and it was excellent. Again, we are dairy and gluten free and one of my sons is also egg free. They each had 2 Mickey waffles which were dairy, gluten, egg, and corn free with real maple syrup. They also had chicken sausage which I paid extra for. I had 2 scrambled eggs, a sweet potato/potato hash and the sausage too. The chef, Brad, was excellent and very friendly. Although he also said the Udi's bread had milk in it, which I don't think it does.

We went to Cookes of Dublin at Downtown Disney for dinner and had excellent gluten free fries fish and chips. By far our "easiest" ordering of the trip so far.

Went to Babycakes twice today and got some treats as well as donuts for breakfast in the morning.

 

[livndisney]

Hi again! Just an update that we ate at Kouzzinas this morning and it was excellent. Again, we are dairy and gluten free and one of my sons is also egg free. They each had 2 Mickey waffles which were dairy, gluten, egg, and corn free with real maple syrup. They also had chicken sausage which I paid extra for. I had 2 scrambled eggs, a sweet potato/potato hash and the sausage too. The chef, Brad, was excellent and very friendly. Although he also said the Udi's bread had milk in it, which I don't think it does.

We went to Cookes of Dublin at Downtown Disney for dinner and had excellent gluten free fries fish and chips. By far our "easiest" ordering of the trip so far.

Went to Babycakes twice today and got some treats as well as donuts for breakfast in the morning.

Babycakes is AWESOME!!!!!

According to the website- Udi's white bread has:

•INGREDIENTS: FILTERED WATER, TAPIOCA STARCH, BROWN RICE FLOUR, POTATO STARCH, SUNFLOWER OIL OR CANOLA OIL, EGG WHITES, EVAPORATED CANE JUICE OR SUGAR, TAPIOCA SYRUP OR BROWN RICE SYRUP, YEAST, XANTHAN GUM, SALT, BAKING POWDER (SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORNSTARCH, CALCIUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), MOLD INHIBITOR (CULTURED CORN SYRUP, ASCORBIC ACID), ASCORBIC ACID (MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE, CORN STARCH), ENZYMES.
CONTAINS EGGS


Read more: http://udisglutenfree.com/view_product/1009//White_Sandwich_Bread#ixzz1oUFPL7do

 

[3prettyprincesses]

Has anyone that's been recently to Disney received an updated allergy food list for gluten? I've been hearing that the lists are still outdated. Thanks!

 

[livndisney]

Has anyone that's been recently to Disney received an updated allergy food list for gluten? I've been hearing that the lists are still outdated. Thanks!

Nope-and I am asking almost weekly.

 

[3prettyprincesses]

Nope-and I am asking almost weekly.

Really? Did they give you any idea of when the new list will be available?

 

[wendow]

Nope-and I am asking almost weekly.

Can you tell me who to contact? I'll join you in asking. Maybe if enough people bug them, they'll get a list together.

 

[livndisney]

Really? Did they give you any idea of when the new list will be available?

No, they are working on it. I think they started out with a few items to "try them out" so to speak. They got feedback on those items and are now looking for some replacements.

Some chefs I have spoken with were less than thrilled with some of the items they originally chose, so the offerings are still a work in progress.

 

[3prettyprincesses]

No, they are working on it. I think they started out with a few items to "try them out" so to speak. They got feedback on those items and are now looking for some replacements.

Some chefs I have spoken with were less than thrilled with some of the items they originally chose, so the offerings are still a work in progress.

Oh good grief. Does that mean the current list is meaningless now? The list I have was last updated December 2010.

 

[livndisney]

Oh good grief. Does that mean the current list is meaningless now? The list I have was last updated December 2010.

That list is not current. There was another update after 12/10 but before the latest change.