What do you cook?

[EROS]

We haven't cooked at DVC since we joined. MY DW's idea of a vacation does NOT include cooking .......

 

[Lora]

...because that would mean eating in the parks ($$$ and my health being the main reasons I don't like the latter option).

We just had a 12 night trip this month and these are the only meals we ate in the parks:

1. supper our first night before grocery shopping (Pecos Bills)
2. Daughter's Birthday breakfast at the castle
3. The Hoop-de-doo Revue (which we loved)
4. 2nd daughter's birthday breakfast at the castle
5. Supper at the French pastry shop when it rained
6. our last day in the parks after check out (Pecos Bills food eaten at the Diamond Horseshoe).

That means we had about 30 meals in our room. And guess what. I lost weight on vacation!!

Breakfast ideas:

cold cereal
fresh fruit
instant oatmeal or other hot cereal
toast/bagels
eggs (we had eggs twice in the room during our stay)

Lunch and Supper ideas:

Buy those salad bags (I usually like to get the italian mix and the baby greens), and a bunch of salad fixin's and cut them all on day 1 or 2. They usually last for at least 4 days. I used the skillet w/ some Pam to cook some chicken strips and had cold chicken over my salad, or tuna, or feta cheese, etc.

I also bought a few bags of frozen veggies and had those at other meals w/ chicken or fish (frozen breaded kind). (Since my husband is the bigger beef eater, I made a roast for him the first night in the room and we sliced it for his meals for a few days and froze some for the 2nd part of our stay.)

Pasta
Soups
Cold Cuts
Tuna
Hamburgers
Peanut butter and jelly (my kids' favorite)

Snacks and Desserts:

We usually would buy ice cream, but ended up w/ soy ice cream this time since we're trying cut down on our dairy.

We also got some soy crisps at the health food store.

Sorry for the long reply....hope that's helpful to someone.

 

[BeckyV]

Thanksgiving of 2000 we went to BWVs with my parents and stayed on our points in a two bedroom unit. My mom and I cooked a few weeks to a month before the trip. Dad even cooked ribs on the grill. We froze most of the menu ahead of time and had a fabulous feast. It was the ribs, baked chicken, a spiral ham, squash casserole, dressing, homemade macaroni and cheese, sweet potato casserole, corn pie, broccoli casserole, and pie and cake for dessert. We still ate out at the Candlelight Processional and for ice cream bars, but really enjoyed our meals in the room. Mom also made homemade chicken salad, shrimp quiche, and pimento cheese. I should also add that my mom and her sister are wonderful cooks. We find it hard to eat out when we can enjoy this. In a studio, I usually take spaghetti I have cooked at home, salads, cooked baked potatos, cooked casseroles, individual puddings, jello, granola bars, sandwich fixings,cereals, and instant grits. I have one suitcase that I use to pack extra paper plates, cups, or even a dish to use in the microwave. It saves a lot. My dh and I really enjoy relaxing and eating in our units at DVC and our other timeshares.

 

[TandyR]

My view of vacation doesn't include cooking, but luckily I have a DH who loves cooking and doesn't find the time to do so when we are home, so when we stayed at VWL we had breakfast and dinner in our room, which was awesome for us. We have DD5 and DD2 and eating out every meal every day would be too much for all of us....and me being a cheap Yankee lunch is the cheapest meal of the day.
What my husband cooked was some sort of fresh local fish with limes on the first day, alfrado w/ shrimp, veggie burgers, quesadias, Mickey Pasta with spagitti sauce and I know there were some other things he made but I can't remember what they were.
What we love about DVC is that it is like you are at home, but your home is at WDW and you can eat out whenever you want or you can eat in. I feel so much more relaxed after our first DVC vacation then any of our other vacations because there was no figuring out what to do about dinner when the girls are tired and want to just veg. I also found it more relaxing because I didn't have a pile of laundry to come back to with the washer and drier right in the room with us we had clean clothes all the time and just a normal washer load when we got home. I got OP, but I love DVC and how it can work for all different people....people who want to cook and people who view the kitchen as a prop in the Disney Magic. It is just a great thing.

 

[MdmMim]

What do I cook? Toast, and if I'm feeling adventurous, microwave popcorn. I might heat up any leftovers from a previous dinner, too. I don't cook at home, and I really don't think the Disney people would want me to try cooking in their hotels. (My last attempt was Campbell's tomato soup-- burned beyond recognition! )

I tend to stay away from the kitchen... Dangerous place, you know?

 

[RoutemanDan]

We only do a few breakfasts in the room.Of course there is always ice cream and frozen pizzas in the freezer for those late night munchies.

 

[Lyndarella]

I was there a week ago with another lady instead of DH and kids. She was on a tight budget, so we BROUGHT several boxes of dinners, fruit cups and bars, popcorn and oatmeal packs, and of course coffee with us and a roll of lunch meat that doesn't need a frig til opened. We bought bread, butter, and milk at the resort store. (Also no car this time!) We ate breakfasts in the room, carried a lunch each day, and ate suppers in the room IF we weren't too tired. We had many late (9:00 - 10:00) nights, and did buy some food in the parks. I spent a TOTAL of $65 on food for THE WEEK, counting the grocery items and some $5 coffee breaks! DH is so impressed with the $ saved, that I am planning an all girls trip again next year! Tip: When carrying a sandwich to the parks, leave the Tupperware box in the room, or you will get tired of carrying it empty the rest of the day! LOL

 

[jcodespoti]

I guess you can say we "cook" but not to the extreme of taking out a cook book. We mainly make breakfast in the moring and will pick stuff that takes 10 minutes or less to make (frozen pizza to frozen drink mix!! . So I guess you can say we "cook" but not like Grandma does

Joe in CT

 

[DeeP]

I have done both, when the kids were small and we used to stay in the FW trailers I cooked almost every meal because it was just easier with little kids. I made eggs, waffles, cereal for breakfast and sandwiches or hamburgers & hot dogs for lunch and then dinner was a full dinner steak, spaghetti & meatballs, pork chops, barbeque chicken , rice , veggies, etc. Once the kids got to be teenagers we began to eat out more and more and now we have quick cereal or bagels for breakfast and we keep snack types foods in our villa but most other meals we eat out. When I do cook now it is simple dinners like steak, potato and salad. A George Forman grill is great in the villas because you can cook steak, chicken breast, fish, pork chops etc and then just have a bagged salad and noodles or rice and you have a good dinner with very little clean up or use of the "stove decoration".

 

[Happy@OKW]

We like having breakfasts, and I don't mind cooking them. Everybody helps with the clean up, so it's better than home!