Any good food ideas to bring into the parks?

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ManhattanWaters

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We only wanna spend money on 1 meal while in the park. What could we bring in our backpack that would be nutritious or healthy that would hold us over without having to buy 2 meals for our visit? What are great items to bring?
 
LeighM

LeighM

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Depends on when you're going to be visiting or what your typical eating schedule is. Most things will melt in the heat or get squished in the bag. Maybe chocolate free granola bars, apples, or oranges. Grapes inside plastic containers. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Nothing that will substitute for a meal. My advice would be to either have breakfast foods in your room before you leave for the park and have a late lunch in the park. Or time schedule your meals with a late breakfast/early lunch or a late lunch/early dinner in the parks. Honestly, I can't imagine being happy eating anything that's been inside a backpack in the hot Florida sun. When we go, we normally skip breakfast for an early quick service lunch in whatever park we're going to be in that day and have a table service dinner at a resort or Disney Springs.
 
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JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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We like to bring a variety of things to snack on until dining. Beef jerky, trail mix, fig newtons, cheese crackers or peanut butter crackers that come packaged , payday nut bars and Pepperidge farm cookies. Just avoid things that may melt or get messy.
 
mysto

mysto

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Almonds
Jerky
Hiking food bars.
Leftover pizza in ziplocks. (messy but im not kidding)
sub sandwiches in ziplocks
Whole fruit.
 
nickys

nickys

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ManhattanWaters said:
We only wanna spend money on 1 meal while in the park. What could we bring in our backpack that would be nutritious or healthy that would hold us over without having to buy 2 meals for our visit? What are great items to bring?
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Cereal bars, apples or other fruit. Or make sandwiches, pack them in a box and use an insulated lunch bag with ice packs or frozen bottles of water. They’ll keep fine for a few hours.
 
Mark Dunne

Mark Dunne

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ManhattanWaters said:
We only wanna spend money on 1 meal while in the park. What could we bring in our backpack that would be nutritious or healthy that would hold us over without having to buy 2 meals for our visit? What are great items to bring?
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Water! Honestly use Garden grocer to deliver to resort, or Amazon , that saves you loads of money, by lots of water, take that in, wraps are a good idea, but nothing that needs to be that chilled as it’s so hot sometimes, apples we take , bag of nuts is great and pretty light , hard to fill up after 8 hrs on you feet, crisps a no no they’ll get crushed . Flapjacks for energy is a great food to take. Good luck . Enjoy
 
esskay

esskay

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At most some kind of granola bar, almost everything else will taste nasty after its melted and baked in the heat - even chips.

Personally I get in, do the rides and get out by 11am then dont go back till at least 4pm so never take food. That mid-day section always feels like the worst time to be there.
 
LeighM

LeighM

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esskay said:
At most some kind of granola bar, almost everything else will taste nasty after its melted and baked in the heat - even chips.

Personally I get in, do the rides and get out by 11am then dont go back till at least 4pm so never take food. That mid-day section always feels like the worst time to be there.
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I keep getting flashbacks to my childhood with the smell of my lunch sitting in my plastic lunchbox for hours when I was a kid and the plastic-y taste of whatever was put in my thermos 🤣
 

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