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I was curious what everyone takes with them to Disney as far as snacks and drinks. I am not talking about what you buy once you are there. I mean the snack and drinks you purchase before you go and pack and take with you to Disney.
My DH thinks I am nuts because I normally take so many snack.
I take all kinds of food. I take potato chips, Little Debbie snacks, candy, water, sodas, juice, and drink mixes to put in the water.
For our room, we went all out healthy and took a bag of chips, a bag of pretzels and a bag of Doritos. [img]graemlins/laughing.gif[/img] Surprisingly though, we didn't eat too much of these. I also took granola bars because DH and I are not breakfast eaters, but we would always grab one of these to eat while waiting for the bus.
For the parks, I took things that were more compact and wouldn't melt. Again, granola bars and we also took those prepackaged cheese and crackers. We didn't bring anything in the way of beverages because we didn't have a frig but we did also bring Brita waterbottles and bought the refillable mugs so we were always either drinking water or soda/iced tea from the food court.
granola bars, and cereal bars get packed. We shop when we get there for snacks and water, but since my daughter is allergic to milk and eggs there are a few brands that I pick up at home because I know they are safe for her and I'm never sure if I can find them down there.
We never pack drinks because they seem to hard to pack in our suit cases. I am afraid they might open during the flight down. We do take Pringles, licorice, granola bars, bagels, english muffins, bite size snickers, individual cereal boxes. So far we have found that all the above travels well. 4 weeks until we leave!!
Individual little bags of trail mix are good. We usually go to Sam's Club to get good ideas on munchies that won't melt or leak liquid anywhere!Buying small individually wrapped crackers or cookies helps them to stay fresher. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
We like granola bars,individual packs of chex mix, pretzles, peanut butter crackers, gum, starburst candies.
We also bring juice boxes or capri suns for the kids. Their favorite snack is individual boxes of cereal to eat dry.
Always pack chocolate of some kind for the room only, too melty for the parks!
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Here is my list:
Licorice
Gum
Tic-Tacs
Pringles
Individual cereals
Granola bars/cereal bars/trail mix bars
Cheeze-its
I have found that if I bring any more than that, it does not get eaten. Rarely can you can eat WDW food and snacks!! The only time we eat in the room is breakfast.
I take a suitcase just for snacks and then have extra space for the return trip -
We take:
Bottled water - small ones
Capri suns - 2 boxes
Choc chip cookies - 1 package
Individual crackers and cheese packs - one box
Bag of pretzels
Bag of goldfish
I take baggies and fill them up in the morning - and take my backpack full of snacks. Everyone gets a choice of 2 in the morning to take. Seems to work pretty well. Does save time and money in the parks.
We drive so it is easy to take a big cooler. When we leave it is packed with drinks. I also took coffee and a french press pot with me for our morning fix.
After we arrive and check in, we go to the Publix near Orlando Premium Outlets and stock up on stuff. Last summer it was dips, chips, sandwich stuff to eat on at lunch.
For us, it is chips, hard candy, Pop Tarts, cookies, and drinks. My mom also always makes me a big batch of Rice Krispie treats before I leave on every trip. [img]graemlins/tasty.gif[/img]
Mostly this is for the room, but we also take a juice puch or two to the parks and a small ziploc of snacks to get us through the day.
We make our own trail mix, and put it in small baggies for each day.Quote:
Originally posted by Ima codfish:
Individual little bags of trail mix are good.
We take Trail Mix, also--one bag with the whole shabang, and one bag without nuts (our youngest hates nuts, for some reason).
We also take Brita water bottles so we can refill in the park and stay hydrated. Someone said they're disontinuing those, though, so we may be out of luck the next time we go unless we stock up on the bottle filters.
We take Pop tarts, Chex mix (individual baggies), Apples & Oranges, cereal bars, bagels, and water bottles, Juice boxes for the kids. It seems to work out great, everybody picks their snack before we leave the room, and off we go!! (Not a food item, but in the years we have been going, a small first aid kit is good too if you have little ones, it seems that they get at least one ouch a day that needs to have a bandaid to "heal" if I can see the ouch or not ;) !!)
Thumbs up for the pringles crowd!
I also take power bars, pbutter crackers, gummi bears, small cereal boxes for early breakfasts, some sandwitch fixins, and lots of coffee!!
Something i have seen that we are trying this year are small single serving crystal light packages. Each package makes 16.8 oz of crystal light (a normal water bottle).
It's so good to talk with another snack planner! We take Pop Tarts, granola bars, cereal, pudding and Jello (prepackaged), pretzels, and Ritz crackers. You can also buy oatmeal in single-serving bowls at the grocery store. I've heard of people packing a separate suitcase just for snacks and I've heard of shipping your snacks to your resort a few days before your scheduled arrival. I'm not sure which way I'm going to do it this time.
Just to clarify ... the oatmeal would be for breakfast at the hotel. I won't be sitting in front of a FastPass machine whipping up a bowl of oatmeal! [img]graemlins/silly.gif[/img]
[img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img] An idea for peanut butter fans ..... I'm allergic to peanut butter, so I'm not sure if this would work. Could you get a plastic jar of Goober peanut butter (it has jelly mixed in with it), pack some crackers, and presto! You'd have lunch! As I said, I'm allergic, so I don't know if the peanut butter would melt in the heat??????
In September,when we go we'll bring Snack bars,cereal,fruit snax,and some kind of juices.also a good thing is filling up a sink with alot of ice(last time we had some beers [img]tongue.gif[/img] )they stayed cool.It works good for anything.
We fly. We take a car service from the airport and ask for a grocery stop. We have a well prepared list ready to go so it doesn't take us long to run in and get snacks, water, breakfast food, etc. If we drove I'd pack as much of the snack stuff as I could but it's bad enough as is lugging the amount of luggage we have to the airport! [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by imaprincess!:
Just to clarify ... the oatmeal would be for breakfast at the hotel. I won't be sitting in front of a FastPass machine whipping up a bowl of oatmeal! [img]graemlins/silly.gif[/img]
I pack pringles, some small ziploc bags for the plane with maybe goldfish, cheese crackers, cinnamon crackers. We buy when we are there soda and water at the grocery store. It's so expensive in Disney I can't believe it. Pringles usually last good but the last time I packed one in my luggage, there was nothing but pieces inside. I don't know if this was from the flight or if they came this way when I bought them. [img]graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
We actually take a small collapsible cooler and keep under the stroller. I put in CapriSun Drinks, mini candy bars, peanut butter crackers, individual pringle packs. We also may have a couple water bottles that we refill at the water fountains(I never notice a bad taste). We end up usually getting an ice cream bar or some snack in the parks, but this does cut down on the amount of stuff we waste money on in the parks...its easy to grab and cheap. I highly recommend anyone take snacks into the parks...unless money isn't an issue. I bet we save quit a bit considering 2 of my kids are 11 and 15(big eaters too).
At our local Costco they sell individual non-perishable chocolate milks. We packed them in a shoebox in our luggage and they came through just fine. I also bought the large disposable glad containers to pack the rest of the food. That way the food was protected, but when we packed to go back home, I didn't feel bad throwing them out. The other food items:
pudding
Pringles
cereal
trail mix
granola bars
pop tarts
drink mixes
We also packed a small, collapsible cooler. Since we didn't have a fridge in our room, we filled the cooler with ice and food court milk at night, so that we could have cereal the next morning.
I have packed snacks before and I have used netgrocer also and had the snacks delivered.
The usual list is:
juice boxes
pop tarts
pudding cups
drakes coffee cakes
assorted candy
assorted chips
granola bars
All you guys and your Pringles and Pop Tarta [img]graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] In all our years of traveling, neither of these ever got packed.
When we drove, everything but the kitchen sink was packed - even plastic bowls and spoons. This year we're flying. We'll have a suitcase filled with goldfish, fruitsnacks, high protein bars, indiv. cereal boxes along with the bowls and spoons, and I suppose I'll throw in PopTarts and Pringles just so we don't feel left out. [img]tongue.gif[/img] We're taking a limo to our resort so we'll do a grocery stop for the drinks.
ok here is what i take in my packed luggage goes bottles of water enough to make the luggage hit 50 pounds with my clothing. then i have one sperate bag for snacks so when i come home that bag gets filled with souveniers thats pringles gummis pretzels depending on where im staying if i have a kitchen i pach shake and pour pancake batter with syrup box of cereal chips, cookies no chocolate though it melts in flight. now on my carry on pull luggage i take the 1.5 liter bottles of coke one for each day in the park so i dont have to buy so much soda in teh park and more water works out so well because i save tons of money on drinks and snacks i suffer getting that luggage to the airport line for all of 5 to 15 minutes thenfrom the bus to the hotel lobby and room then the suffering is over and the spending begins because i just saved a ton of money on food including breakfast snacks and drinks