What snacks do you bring or have sent by grocery delivery?

[MichelleRae]

Kids are 12, 11, 10, 9, 7, and 2. Again... only one is mine.

What are good snacks to take for long park days? We are on dining plan with 1 counter/1 sit down/1 snack.

Thinking granola bars but seriously drawing a blank otherwise. When we go to other parks and drive I bring my wonderwheeler and can put tons of stuff in it including a cooler so I bring tons of stuff some which needs to be kept cool.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[stephbillalec]

goldfish, pretzels, cereal bars, cookies, fresh fruit

 

[Tink-n-MrIncredible]

I usually bring capri suns or kool aids, also individaul crystal light packages to add to water (they also sell kool aid for bottle water). As far as snacks slim jims, cereal bars, fruit snacks, gold fish or whales, nuts, cheese and crackers. Find things your children like and bring it as long as it won't melt. I prefer the individual packages or you can put stuff in zip lock bags. If you bring a cooler individaul gogurts, cheese sticks, fruit (like grapes, berries, etc). Don't forget individual hand wipes to clean dirty fingers. That's all I can think of right now. Hopefully others have more ideas. Enjoy your trip.

 

[Priorityonecb]

Each day of our trip we get a bag of Chip and Dale trail mix as we are heading into the parks with a snack credit. We are "grazers" really and that bag lasts the fours of us almost the whole day. Whenever anyone needs a little something, they just get a handful of trail mix. It's delicious, healthy and convenient.

 

[sameyeyam]

Bags of nuts, either individual bags or put into sandwich baggies. Jerky is also good. Both give that added boost of protein needed from expending so much energy all day long. Plus very filling. Also, bags of microwave popcorn already popped.

 

[HeatherC]

We bring cheese sticks, peanut butter crackers, oranges, fiber plus bars (keeps everyone full!), and nuts.

 

[daisyduck123]

Not one thing, literally.

We always do the dining plan & it honestly, is enough for us. (My kids are now 12yo & 15yo and this has worked very well for us for the past 4 or 5 years). We do a counter-service lunch & a table-service dinner. We are usually quite stuffed and some days we don't even use the snack credits. Last year upon our check-out, we had 13 snack credits to use up.

I see you have a toddler though, and I know they love to snack.

 

[jagafen]

Not one thing, literally.

We always do the dining plan & it honestly, is enough for us. (My kids are now 12yo & 15yo and this has worked very well for us for the past 4 or 5 years). We do a counter-service lunch & a table-service dinner. We are usually quite stuffed and some days we don't even use the snack credits. Last year upon our check-out, we had 13 snack credits to use up.

I see you have a toddler though, and I know they love to snack.

I'd just get some general snacky things (granola bars, pretzels, goldfish, etc. for teh little one mostly.) The dining plan is a lot of food, and the last time I thought I took it easy when I ordered cheese-its and a few cans of pringles for in-room snacking. They were barely touched...

This year, garden grocer's order was strictly breakfast foods and bottled water.

 

[Chelley00]

DD and I ordered snack items from Garden Grocer, along with breakfast stuff and bottled water.

We ate all the breakfast stuff and most of the water, however, the snack stuff didn't get touched. The dining plan is so much food. I took stuff in the parks with us, but honestly, we didn't eat it. We'd sometimes save her cookie or carrots or grapes from her counter service to snack on in line.

The one thing DD did eat in the room at night would be the bagged apple slices or bananas. I think she was junk fooded out by the end of the day.

 

[chefkellyb]

We were there last week and packed our lunch each day. (We were not on the Dining Plan. We are DVC and ate breakfast and dinner in our room - so snacks were needed for us.) Each day, we ate different "sides/snacks" with our sandwiches. I packed the following in my backpack cooler: sugar free vanilla puddings, applesauces, trail mix, dried bananas, cheez-itz, rice crispy treats, goldfish crackers, goldfish pretzels, twizzlers, pringles, and gogurts. The trail mix and dried bananas are from our Dollar Tree store!

The other family traveling with us were on the same Dining Plan as you and they hardly snacked. I caught them munching on goldfish only. They had so much food!

Hope this helps!

 

[stazmatic]

I agree with the above posts on things to bring. As for delivered from Garden Grocer we always get fresh fruit, milk, juice, gatorade, bakery donuts, and alcohol.

The fresh fruit is bananas, clementines, and the apples already sliced in the bags. This is a great way to start the day, especially if your kids need to eat as soon as they wake up like mine do. This way if there is a breakfast scheduled they can eat something to tide them over until we get there.

The milk we order because my kids are lactose-intolerant and Disney doesn't carry it.

The bakery donuts are an easy breakfast and still considered a "treat" but are way cheaper.

The alcohol is about 1/4 of the price of Disney's. They will bring anything you just need to add it in to the comments section and they will bill you separately.

 

[Duckyiam71]

We were on the QSDP and we brought snacks for the room and we never touched them. We did order a case of water, beer, wine and some fruit. All of that was used up but not the chips, protein bars, fruit strips. so it really depends on if you are on a dining plan. We could not justify the cost of alcohol at the bars at night when we could pour it in our mugs and sit by the pool or lounge.