What are your Breakfast In-Hotel-Room Ideas

[lorac4disney]

I'm allergic to milk and eggs and my daughter is allergic to milk so we prefer to bring/cook our breakfast. Being DVC, we usually have a full kitchen. This year, we will be staying in a studio at SSR and our trip is going to be on a very tight budget. We plan to eat in our room for all but the last morning that we are there. I reserve that morning for packing everything up so I don't want to hassle with having to fix something while packing.

On our last morning, we plan on picking up allergy friendly Mickey waffles at Artist's Palette for my daughter and I while my husband has the biscuits and gravy. I will be bringing bacon to cook in the microwave. I also bring fully cooked sausage that just needs to be heated up. I also bring heat and eat pancakes (allergy friendly) and oatmeal. I vacuum pack everything and keep it frozen during the trip. We have one of those ice chests that keeps ice frozen for a lot of days so we deep freeze our food and also bring a lot of frozen water bottles to take along with us into the park.

We like to have plenty of fresh fruit so we plan an initial trip to the grocery store to stock up. While we are there, we get our cheap souvenirs along with anything we forgot to pack (there's always something we forgot). And if we need to, we also make a mid week run to the grocery store to resupply anything we run out of.

 

[akl432]

http://smashedpeasandcarrots.com/no-bake-energy-bites-recipe/

This is the one I use. Sounds like it might be the same one.

Yes. It is basically this with no coconut and it calls for crunchy peanut butter. Im normally a smooth JIF girl but for these I've been buying fresh ground peanut butter. It's thicker than the smooth JIF so it molds easier and it has no sugar which is good because they already have honey and chocolate chips in the recipe.

Thank you so much! Looks delicious! I am going to add this to my list of recipes to try!

 

[squirrel]

My breakfast energy balls are even easier. 1 mashed ripe banana, a TBSP of Peanut Butter, 2/3 cup oats and add in flax, cinnamon, chocolate chips (mini) if you want. Add in any dried fruit as long as it's small pieces it should work. You can change out the peanut butter to sun butter or wow butter.

I always pack bowls and spoons with a box of cereal. I also pack quite a few fruit pouches or cups (I have a lot of raw fruit and veggie allergies). Cereal or granola bars.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

It's vacation! I love going out for breakfast! Mickey Waffles! What is this "eat cereal in your room" thing???

 

[kbwright]

We are DVC so have access to toaster and micro and do egg, cheese and bacon on an English for breakfast most days. crack the egg in a mug, micro for 45 seconds add the cheese micro another 20 add on a toasted English muffin with some precooked bacon and we are good to go. I am lactose intolerant (cheese doesn't bother me but I can't go near milk without disappearing for long stretches) so I haven't been near cereal in years even with all the alternate milks out there. I do better starting the day with protein vs sugar. My husband would be all over cereal, doughnuts etc...but he doesn't order the groceries lol

 

[Minnesota!]

We discovered these: http://www.vacavillefruit.com/buy-the-lb/naturals/product-name-10.html

recently. So, I am packing a Costco sized bag, a jar of peanut butter, and some bread.

 

[Tink_83]

I just got a Mickey Mouse muffin pan from the Disney store. I'm planning to make muffins before the trip and eat those! Also we will have a full kitchen so I plan to do eggs in the morning as well.

We also have a character breakfast scheduled so we will get to sit down and eat as well one day.

 

[brennicksmom]

We usually just bring some kind of granola bar or pop tarts. I won't use the coffee maker in the room for a few reasons so nothing with hot water for us.

We bring our own coffee maker on driving trips!

 

[scrapquitler]

Hello Budget Friends!

We have a trip coming up in May and I would love to know what you bring for breakfast to save money and eat in your room before departing out for the day.

We will be driving so we will be able to bring and pick things up no problem.

All that will be in our room is a fridge. Thanks!

We usually bring fruit and peanut butter crackers to eat in the morning, we also run down to the food court and fill our mugs with coffee. I usually also bring a box of pop tarts because that's what the 14 year old prefers. On our last trip, I brought some of those individual cups of Cream of Wheat and Oatmeal that you add water to then microwave. A couple of the mornings I made myself the oatmeal while I was getting the coffee.

 

[NotUrsula]

I'm useless without protein, but I don't eat peanuts, as they do a number on my digestive system. (Not allergic.) I carry small bags of other nuts for between-meal snacking when I'm in the parks, but I like a hot breakfast, and I'm kind of British in my breakfast tastes. I pack a breakfast kit that consists of Canadian bacon slices, pre-sliced English muffins, and a small squeeze bottle of HP sauce, plus a few folded sheets of HD aluminum foil. No toaster is no problem; I wrap the sandwich in the foil and iron it. (Some of you may recognize this as the old dorm-room grilled cheese trick!)

We also stop at a supermarket for baked goods, smoked deli meats, milk, juice, and whole fruit. The rest of the family grazes on that.

 

[rnorwo1]

My normal diet is fairly-paleoish, and breakfast is my biggest meal of the day, typically with a protein and two vegetables. I absolutely have typical Disney food on vacation, including bread pudding (!), but the more I can stick to my normal diet the better I feel. We stay in a dvc villa with full kitchen, but I've been in hotels with ice chests before; I even put boiled eggs in my suitcase when we fly. I do not want to cook much, though, so we stick with things like boiled eggs, bacon and eggs on our sleep-late-water park days, or just left overs. I've eaten cold steak and chicken for many hotel breakfasts. Two of my kids do eat dairy, so they will do cheese sticks wrapped with deli meat. I may experiment with coconut four "tortillas" soon, that will open up possibilities. On mornings when we are rushing, beef jerky, nuts, and dried or fresh fruit work well. And I LOVE almond butter on a banana, which is pretty filling. Avocado is a very packable fruit, and it is definitely filing. I don't like it on it's own, but I can mash it with a can of albacore tuna for an extremely filling meal.

The kids do get some of the junk food mentioned, like pop tarts, while on vacation, but those are for snacks, not breakfast. No one in my family does well with that for breakfast. Starving and cranky within an hour!

 

[dclpluto]

Granola bar. Maybe cereal. I'm a dvc member and stay in a 1 bedroom so I have a full kitchen but there is no way I'm cooking on vacation

 

[etoiles]

Loved reading all of these! Bumping for more ideas!

 

[jacksmom]

We drive and bring a cooler. We bring mini cinnamon raisin bagels, cream cheese, mini boxes of cereals, milk, granola bars, mini muffins, rice cakes, Nutella, fruit including bananas to slice and put on cereal, and small juices.

 

[5kidsmommy]

We bring cereal and milk and bagel with cream cheese. We also stock up on snacks for midnight snacking. Mostly my husband and kids that get hungry. So we also bring bread and lunch meat.

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

Bagels and peanut butter

 

[TwoMisfits]

Dairy-allergy, but I've started to make this type of breakfast from a hotel breakfast bar...and it's easy to replicate in your own hotel room.

At Marriott, I put grapes, strawberries, and pineapple (all precut fruits they had on their breakfast bar) in a bowl, sliced 1/2 a banana on top...wandered over to the waffle/oatmeal topping area and added sliced almonds, walnuts, raisins, craisins, and coconut...and then drizzled the bowl with honey and fresh lemon juice (both were out for the tea). It was out of this world good for breakfast along with my coffee (where I brought my own milk to put in)...I felt great that day...and to do this in a hotel room, you just need a little mini fridge for the better-cold fruits...and a knife, cutting board, and bowl...