What kind of snacks do you bring in the parks?

[Ladybug888]

Hello everyone!

We are leaving in 3 days for our first WDW family vacation and I am in full packing mode! I am curious to hear what some experienced travelers bring into the parks for snacks and stuff.

I need suggestions for a 4 y/o who can eat all day long!

I have never done this before so any suggestions you can offer will be greatly appreciated!

 

[perdidochas]

Hello everyone!

We are leaving in 3 days for our first WDW family vacation and I am in full packing mode! I am curious to hear what some experienced travelers bring into the parks for snacks and stuff.

I need suggestions for a 4 y/o who can eat all day long!

I have never done this before so any suggestions you can offer will be greatly appreciated!

We bring lunch--sandwiches, fruit (apples and oranges), and various wrapped goods--i.e. chips, granola bars, cereal bars, rice krispy treates, peanut butter crackers, etc.

 

[twins4disney]

Is it okay for us to take frozen juice boxes or those pouches into the parks?

 

[Kellyscrapbooks]

Granola bars, apples and our own water bottles are the main things that come to mind.

 

[boysmom5150]

All we took was some dry cereal that we purchased at the snack bar at our hotel and some pretzels. Thats it!! with a 1 and 4 yr old we had enough to lug along anything we would purchase we did when they wanted it. Have fun!!

 

[welovedisneyx4]

Cowtails and indvidual packs of gummy snacks work good for us! They are lightweight and don't take up much room in a back pack.

Also, if the kids didn't finish part of their meal and it was something we could easily carry, we would take that w/ us.

When we were in Washington DC this summer, the motel had apples and oranges out in the morning, so we would take those. That was a good snack for all of us.

Have fun!

 

[LISAVWL]

goldfish, cheerios & cereal bars. I agree with the above poster, there's already so much to lug around for the kids -- no need to bring a ton of snacks.

 

[kileybeth]

my kids feel like it is a treat to go ahead of time, before the trip and buy the "expensive treats" at Costco and BJ's! Little do they know we are still saving tons of money on Disney snacks (altho we do always end up buying our fair share of those too! oh. . .the magic the magic of an ice cream bar shaped like Mickey!)

that said. we always take gummie pieces, small and not to messy.
rice krispie treats, very lightweight to carry around.
capri suns are small, easily frozen and a godsend in long lines
goldfish don't squish to easily after all day in a backpack
we also take frozen gogurts
pringles if you like them are in containers that do nut crush (also lightweight)
hhhmmm, lots of other junkie stuff that kids love to be able to have whenever (usually a long line or a hot part of day)

warning: mix it up each day and don't bring to many per person or they will get bored with it all and you will end up wasting snacks, carrying around a lot of unnecessary weight and spending at Disney prices anyway (can you tell I've done this before?!)

 

[MarkeyMouse]

Fruit snacks & juice boxes.

 

[mom2aredhead]

Mostly goldfish, crackers, juice boxes, water, fruit

Edited to add: 100 posts! I'm officially a Mousketeer!

 

[northriver]

I went shopping for the healthiest possible snacks and this is what I decided on:

Kids Cliff Bars (don't have the box, kids ate them all already!) They are healthy and organic. Plus they are small.

Little boxes of rasins

Individual packages of pretzels

Dried Apples - I found some that are organic apples, thats it.

Fig Newtons, the 100% whole wheat ones are healthier but more crumbly.

Cheese sticks.

Forzen water bottles.

Yep I'm bringing all that. DD 20 months is the slowest eater ever and I'm not waiting an hour and a half for her to eat each meal. She'll have to eat healthy snacks while we are waiting in lines! She'll have to eat her cheese stick first thing obvioulsy.

HTH!

 

[LynnTH]

My kids love Slim Jims and they are easy to pack. So, we would pack some of those each days as well as a fruit snack or something. Just little things for when they just needed a little something. Otherwise we just bought our meals and snacks, but this did save a little bit of money by bringing a few things of our own.

We also brought bottled water with the individual lemonade packets so the kids never asked to buy them drinks - we just would fill up the water bottles and add a flavor packet and they were good to go. (it helped that we had a stroller to keep everything in also- not sure I would want to carry them all the time)

 

[nettii]

I like to bring trail mix, beef jerky, nuts-almonds,granolla bars and of course water, water water!

 

[kileybeth]

oh yes! forgot about cheese sticks! they were favs for all 4 of my kids last time. we put in hotel fridge (freezer section) night before and even in the heat (some 90+ days) they stayed nice and firm until about noon-1ish (from early morning in backpack).

cheese and protein type snacks are great because they are a more steady energy source w/o the highs and lows so much. . .

more ideas?

 

[flagdaytwins]

Dole fruit cups or applesauce in those single serving cups -- I sip off some of the juice first to make them less messy, great sweet pick me up for the kids. Unfortunately, you need a spoon for these.