Do you have any Travel Menu ideas for a group of 7 going to Disneyland?

Question

Hello - I'm traveling with family to Disneyland for 3 days this February.

I'd like your help creating a 3-DAY stockpile of meals so we can eat at our leisure, in the hotel or outside.

What are your ideas for 3 days of lunches, dinner & snacks for seven?
NO special diet restrictions. Ideal meals would be:
- easy to prepare
- stored in a cooler
- reasonably healthy. (They don't have to be low-carb or meatless or anything.)

This is my first time planning meals for such a trip, so ANY ideas (or links to pages for ideas) are welcome.

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

3-Days worth of meals for 7 people. This means you are looking at about 14 meals plus snacks, relying only on coolers(you will need more than 1). This is no short order(no pun intended). The biggest thing you have to worry about is food safety especially if you have perishable items. The last thing you want is a nice case of food poisining to ruin your vacation. Disneyland does not really restrict bringing in food. They don't allow Glass, Sharp Objects, or Coolers. What ever you bring in you have to carry or get a locker for. So if you have a small backpack bringing in pre-made sandwiches, snacks and bottled water would be no problem.



You didn't specify Breakfast but this is probably the simplest meal. You can bring items like Muffins/Pastries or Cereal. These require no refigeration. For hot cereal you just need something like a coffee pot to heat the water. For cold cereal you can keep the milk in one of the coolers surrounded by plenty of ice.



For lunches sandwiches are probably your best bet. Simple lunch meats. For condements everything should be pretty safe except for mayonaise. You can also pick up those "condement packages" and don't have to worry about refigeration at all. I would not make these until each morning before you go.



For Dinners I figure that you are trying to do this to save money. But I would suggest against trying to pack a dinner. There are plenty of resturants just outside the park(in Downtown Disney and along Harbor Blvd). Including Denny's, IHOP and McDonalds. If you want to eat in the park and have some people that are not big eaters there are a couple of lcoations you can easily split a meal between two people. One is Pizza Port where you can split a Pasta Dish or even get a whole pizza.



Snacks - Fruit Snacks, Trail Mix, Bottled Water, chips. Any quick finger foods would be good.

Answer 2

First off I wanted to give you the link to all Disneyland, California Adventure and Downtown Disney Restaurants and counter services.



http://allears.net/dlr/din/menu/menus.htm



Let me tell you what I do.



For Lunch It may seem simple but PB and J has always been so simple and we have four people and we go to Costco and get fruit it is something that doesn't need a cooler we usually get Orange's and Banana's because with all the not so healthy food a little Vitamin C and Potassium are not a bad thing. Also we have done Lunch meats and cheese but for lunch typically sandwiches are the easiest. I also do albacore salad which can be added to bread if you like, I like it with crackers you can also do tuna but what I do is shredded carrot's green onion, and little pieces of celery with mayo and a little mustard and mix it all up and salt and pepper to taste. You can pre make this and it will last about three day's if kept cold. Chip's and fruit snacks are also great with lunch.



For Dinner as long as you have a microwave you should be good. I pre package dinners before I go it is more work but I take all the meals I make and freeze them then I don't have to rely on the cooler keeping thing fresh for the 8 hour car ride. I make a big pot of soup usually beef stew and add potatoes, carrot's, celery, onion, beef stew meat,and sometimes fresh green beans and then pre package it into individual meals and freeze I get two or three night's out of it. Home made Chicken noodle soup is also easy and very tasty.

I also will do spaghetti with a meat sauce and pre package those meals be sure if you do this to always add extra sauce to the top so after it's been in the freezer and the re heating it is not dry.

Another great meal is I will make chicken casserole the one that's on the Campbell's mushroom soup can it's rice and chicken but I double and triple it and always add another half a can of soup mix to each dish and sometimes I will add corn to it after it is done in the oven I drain the corn the recipe calls for cheese on top but I don't do that because it does not freeze and re heat right.

The other one I did recently was I made a two boxes of Spanish rice I think it was the brand Knorr or Lipton and just ground up meat and added to the rice when it was done cooking then bought some some shredded cheese and tortillas and made my own burrito's the patch of rice and meat you only put into two portions because it is easy to re heat.



Yes this is three days of cooking for me because I like to have the soups cook really long but one it taste ten times better then those pre done meals and I know my family appreciate all the work I do I also think that it is cheaper then all those pre meals. If you want to look for other meals you might like to cook check out www.Foodtv.com I go there for most of my recipe's just remember something's don't do to well from freezer to microwave.



I know this is allot of info but I hope it helps you and Enjoy remember after all this work and planning you get to go to Disneyland !

Answer 3

No problem, Mr Bernstein, I'm with you you on this one. With the amount of great bands out of Japan like the ones you mentioned (check out Boris as well), I've grown an interest in travelling over to Tokyo and the surrounding areas. With so much cultural and historical context, it would be an amazing trip that is quickly moving up my to-do list. Add to it that I find Japan to be the source of some of the best music coming out these days and it seems like a winning vacation all the way around. Edit: Mr. Bernstein, thanks for the info. It's something I'd have to look into more but with airfares like that it can be done. Flights out of Porland on standard fare might run a little less as well..... Edit: Thanks Mach, hope your day is fantastic....:o) Wow, I like the Elusive Parallelograms. Very catchy, it sounds similar to something else (yet different), I just can't place it right now. Great sound. :O)