Who Cooks on Vacation?

[WDWguruDH]

Since I learned how to do polls, I thought I would do one about cooking. It comes up a lot in different threads and is actually one of the items that DVD pushes as a cost savings. Sorry if this has been done before, but I was wondering.
We like the kitchen for breakfast food - rolls, fruit, coffee, etc., but don't actually cook anything.

 

[mouseclick1]

Mostly breakfast and snacks. We have cooked simple foods like hot dogs, but nothing more elaborate than that!

 

[Barb]

Heck, most days I don't cook at home, let alone on vacation. However, since we've become DVC members, DH really enjoys eating breakfast in the room. So that's what we do now. It's strictly toast, cereal, fruit, and pastries though. Nothing fancy at all. Then it's just snacks for other times.

 

[Jeanne]

We have always been a breakfast and snack only family. The one meal exception we make, wine, cheese, sausage, cracker night. This past summer our 2 teens each brought a friend with them. We stocked up on frozen pizza, and lunch fixings. The kids found it to be quick, cheap, and they were happy. So were we, DH and I ate very well, and saved money, while the kids enjoyed their food freedom.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

I answered "Don't eat at all in the room". We actually use the fridg for beer and water, the coffee maker, and possibly the micro. We don't actually 'cook' anything.

 

[Granny]

We also do the breakfast and snack thing....though we have also cooked an occasional meal in the room as well. But I answered breakfast and snack only as it was the closest to what we have done.

 

[DVC-Don]

We do breakfast almost every morning. We also make an occassional lunch and/or dinner maybe every other day.

 

[bicker]

When we have the children with us, we typically make one or two meals per day in the room -- almost always breakfast. This next time it is just us, so we will do breakfast every day in the room, and maybe one or two lunches.

 

[jx3smom]

We eat breakfast in but I do not cook it. It's cereal, instant oatmeal, toast, etc. We sometimes have leftovers from last nights dinner out for lunch. We eat dinner out every night. I cook almost every day at home and I am not doing it in WDW. I do cook when we go to New Hampshire, but I don't ski so I don't mind then.

 

[Wes]

Of the voting choices, I had to choose cooking 1 meal a day. But the poll does not really reflect what we do.

We always eat breakfast in our room, which is almost always not cooked.

Our trips are always long ones (8 days or more). So the days that we are in the parks, we do not usually cook at all, eating both lunch and supper in the park.

On the days that we are not in the parks, we will often cook up supper. Lunch will either be some place we have gone to or sandwiches or left overs (perhaps warmed up in the microwave).

 

[cgcw]

While at Hilton Head, I prefer to cook which is NOT something I want to do at home. It's nothing fancy but we find it's easier with the kids -- maybe when they get older we'll tend to dine out more.
On our recent trip to WDW, we didn't cook anything. DH wouldn't even have donuts in the morning which we had left over. The kids didn't want them either. We made coffee -- that was the extent of using the kitchen.

 

[Chuck S]

We usually have coffee, cereal and fruit on the patio for beakfast. I actually did scrambled eggs one morning on our last trip. Other than that it is popcorn and snack foods. We have had guests along on trips that cooked full dinners almost every night, or used the grills by the pool. THey finally asked us to save points and get two studio because when they had the full kitchen they felt like they HAD to cook, or were wasting money.

 

[KNWVIKING]

We'll toast some bagels and cinnamon bread, hit them with butter or cream cheese.We'll pick up milk and OJ. This is actually more then we normally have for breakfast at home on weekdays and it tides us over till 11:30 when we break for lunch.

 

[CarolMN]

Originally posted by Granny
We also do the breakfast and snack thing....though we have also cooked an occasional meal in the room as well. But I answered breakfast and snack only as it was the closest to what we have done.

What he said.

 

[nelle]

We just returned form our first stay and we ate mostly breakfast in the room. However next trip we will cook one meal and have breakfast in the room. By the end of this last trip I was so sick of my kids eating chicken strips, hot dogs, mac and cheese and french fries with no fruit or veggies being offered on the menu's. So I decided that next trip we will cook one meal per day. My husband isn't thrilled because he thought that being on vacation ment not having to eat my cooking , but he will get over it.
I would like to see a crock pot in the villas so I could put in a roast and come back and it would be done for dinner. I guess I will just have to bring mine from home

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Guess I am the odd one here. I love to cook, so, we have a full breakfast every morning, eat lunch at the parks if we are there, if not, in the unit, and generally cook dinner. We manage a few dinners out, but, other than that, that kitchen gets a work out when I am there.