Where to eat meals?

[shaynar]

Do you eat your meals only in the rooms? Or do you make things to bring to the parks?

If so, can you suggest ideas for dinners to bring into the parks? (We'll probably bring sandwiches for lunch, but looking for something a little nicer for dinner.)

TIA!

 

[rlovew]

We generally eat breakfast in the room. Eat a TS meal for lunch (unless we are doing a signature for dinner) and then eat dinner in the room. If we are in the parks for a meal that we don't have a TS planned then we either have a snack to make it until we get back or eat counter service.

Other than snacks we don't tend to bring food into the parks we would rather go back to the room and relax if we are going to eat less expensively.

 

[LindaBabe]

I second that - we eat breakfast in the room and always have food for snacks/quick at home meals like a fruit bowl, veggies & dip, a rotisserie chicken or box of fried chicken, crackers & cheese, but we do not carry meals other than a piece of fruit and a cheese stick to the parks. If we stay out all day with no break then it's an early night - we have lunch in the park and 'supper' off the food in our room. If we DO take a midday break then we lunch off the food in our room, and have dinner out.

We both have blood sugar issues and try to eat healthy. Food in the room helps us do that.

Carrying food to the parks other than snacks is kinda tough to keep at a safe temperature for very long.

 

[Disneypapa]

Like many others, we eat breakfast in the room (pastries, cereal, etc.). For lunch we make sandwiches to take with us to the parks. Dinner is usually table service restaurant at the parks or one of the Resorts (Boma is great!)

 

[eliza61]

Do you eat your meals only in the rooms? Or do you make things to bring to the parks?

If so, can you suggest ideas for dinners to bring into the parks? (We'll probably bring sandwiches for lunch, but looking for something a little nicer for dinner.)

TIA!

We tend to be the weird folks on the block. We eat what you would probably consider more "European". We have our biggest meal of the day early on and then get lighter as the day goes on.

Generally I'm not a fan of the park restaurants so rarely will I eat there. Epcot's world showcase is probably the exception. So generally we will have a big breakfast in our room, leave the parks early afternoon and have our main meal and then maybe dessert or snack in the evening.
If we make dinner our sit down meal 99.9% of the time it will not be in the parks (unless at Epcot)

 

[hakepb]

PB&J is about the only sandwich you could safely bring into the park.

I have seen a few families grab pb&j's from a backpack and start eating in an attraction line. There is a level of brilliance there, they are not wasting money or time on food.

 

[Nanajo1]

You could freeze bottles of water to pack to keep fruit and other perishable food cold. You also have nice cold water to drink. Because we found breakfast buffets easier with little ones we will do one then have a snack for lunch and if we are in the parks do a counter service or go back to the villa for dinner. But every day is an adventure!

 

[hakepb]

I bring a sandwich in an insulated lunch bag with a freezer pack to work most of the time, but I would not trust any method of refrigeration in the Fla sun.
The frozen water bottles are nice for water. And if they helped keep an apple cool and refreshing, nice. I wouldn't want to spend half my trip studying the bathroom in my villa, though

 

[com_op_2000]

DW usually makes a one-pot meal (IE: soup, stew, lazanga, etc) and we eat either lunch or dinner in our room depending on what is going on that day.
If we are in the parks, we usually do CS.
We are given gift certificates as birthday/anniversary gifts and use those off-site for sit-down meals.

 

[hakepb]

I do think you are fine with a big breakfast then a big late lunch/early dinner in the room with snacks to fill in other times (that's the DDP1) TS, (1)QS and (1) snack