Thread for allergy foods updates

[ekatiel]

Just griped out Special Diets about their lack of egg-free options these days. I lost it when the CM told me my kid could have apple slices instead of a cookie at MVMCP . She said that the Enjoy Life cookies were not listed as an official "option" for cookies that night (they list OMG brand for gluten free, and some sugar-free cookie that also has eggs in it). She did say that the usual quick service places *might* have Enjoy Life cookies on hand. But when I asked her if I should just bring my own cookies to make sure that DS gets a cookie, she said yes. Yea, I know, it's only a cookie, but WDW is (was) the only place in the entire world where we could visit and not have to bring food with us. It was the only place where DS could order some kind of treat, and they would have one that was safe. It just makes me so sad that we've lost that. I guess I'll be packing a box of Chips Ahoy this year . --Katie

 

[valree]

Thanks for the F&W responses! I'll make sure to hit the Florida and South Korea booths.

Sorry to hear about your egg issues, ekatiel. It sucks to have to bring food to the parks, but I guess that's the only way to do it. I'm going to bring French Meadow brownies with me for my dessert. I want to be sure that I have a treat in case I don't like the OMG brand (never had any of their products before). I already know that I don't like Enjoy Life products. I already have to bring my own BBQ sauce to eat with QS burgers and chicken tenders because Disney uses the Heinz version, which is not GF. Such is the life of a pack mule.

 

[livndisney]

Just griped out Special Diets about their lack of egg-free options these days. I lost it when the CM told me my kid could have apple slices instead of a cookie at MVMCP . She said that the Enjoy Life cookies were not listed as an official "option" for cookies that night (they list OMG brand for gluten free, and some sugar-free cookie that also has eggs in it). She did say that the usual quick service places *might* have Enjoy Life cookies on hand. But when I asked her if I should just bring my own cookies to make sure that DS gets a cookie, she said yes. Yea, I know, it's only a cookie, but WDW is (was) the only place in the entire world where we could visit and not have to bring food with us. It was the only place where DS could order some kind of treat, and they would have one that was safe. It just makes me so sad that we've lost that. I guess I'll be packing a box of Chips Ahoy this year . --Katie

I understand! DD is allergic to dairy, soy and apple. Her options? water!

 

[clanmcculloch]

Thanks for the F&W responses! I'll make sure to hit the Florida and South Korea booths.

Sorry to hear about your egg issues, ekatiel. It sucks to have to bring food to the parks, but I guess that's the only way to do it. I'm going to bring French Meadow brownies with me for my dessert. I want to be sure that I have a treat in case I don't like the OMG brand (never had any of their products before). I already know that I don't like Enjoy Life products. I already have to bring my own BBQ sauce to eat with QS burgers and chicken tenders because Disney uses the Heinz version, which is not GF. Such is the life of a pack mule.

We only tried the OMG cookies as the OMG brownies have milk making them off limits, but I will say that we quite enjoyed the OMG cookies. My 12yo does eat gluten but she can't have a bunch of other stuff so she's served allergy products but typically doesn't like gluten free stuff. She liked the OMG cookies better than the Divvies which she always enjoyed. She really likes them a lot and we used up some snack credits to bring some home.

Where did you see that Heinz BBQ sauce isn't gluten free? They list it as gluten free. We use a different brand due to preference and haven't checked on our other allergens to even see if it's safe or not so I don't know if we react to it or not but I always understood several of their flavours to be gluten free. http://www.heinz.com/glutenfree/products.html

 

[dawnball]

My recollection from our last trip is that the Heinz BBQ sauce they have in individual servings is this one...

The dehydrated soy sauce in it contains wheat.

The other "Ugh, REALLY?" from our last trip was that while they had Ken's ranch dressing around (which is gluten free), the ranch in the carrots/celery snack packs contained "Hydrolyzed Corn and Yeast Protein (with Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten)". Carrots and dip is a nice snack, but not nice enough for me to carry a pocket full of salad dressing around with me.

 

[DCDisney]

Dined at trails end tonight and they had nothing I could eat for dessert at all. The chef was apologetic about the crummy selection of allergy pkg stuff. If you can't do the ice creams which all have soy or legumes it's a pretty bad deal. Luckily the corn bread there is really good so I just had that with coffee for my dessert.

 

[valree]

My recollection from our last trip is that the Heinz BBQ sauce they have in individual servings is this one...

The dehydrated soy sauce in it contains wheat.

The other "Ugh, REALLY?" from our last trip was that while they had Ken's ranch dressing around (which is gluten free), the ranch in the carrots/celery snack packs contained "Hydrolyzed Corn and Yeast Protein (with Hydrolyzed Wheat Gluten)". Carrots and dip is a nice snack, but not nice enough for me to carry a pocket full of salad dressing around with me.

Yes, that's exactly the BBQ sauce that I was talking about!

Carrying around pockets full of salad dressing - the thought makes me LOL. My family was shocked to see me whip out cookies and packets of BBQ sauce out of the bottomless bag that I carried last year. I always have to be prepared - especially when people around me are pigging out on yummy things like funnel cake.

 

[book_junkie]

Heya-
Came back 10/20, and then had a spur of the moment trip since I was in Orlando for other reasons, and wanted to let everyone know that if you use the My Disney Experience app to book any table service reservation, right now NO ALLERGY requests come through.

I used the app to change out reservations when my hubbie wasn't feeling well due to his Crohn's, and made sure to mark our allergies, and none of our allergens were on the reservations. We mentioned them to the servers, who then responded appropriately, and I've emailed Disney about the situation, but thought I'd post here.

We had good experiences with the chefs and servers throughout both trips, but the app is not user friendly.

 

[Sparkly]

I posted this question in it's own thread before I saw this one, but:

In Sleepy Hollow in MK, do they have dairy free cookies and/or ice cream? I was looking forward to my ice cream sandwich

I can eat a bit more then I could a few weeks ago (I swear this is because of stress or something) but it's still random what sets me off. I was thinking of trying to eat as little dairy as possible so I could at least have a Mickey bar on one day as a special snack without the stomach cramps and running to the bathroom!

 

[DCDisney]

Any location that sells ice cream can order tofutti or ice dream to be brought to the cart or QS location but it can take 30 minutes. I don't think sleepy hollow usually stocks the allergy safe cookies but if you are just trying to decrease dairy I'd go for the real cookies because the allergy safe ones aren't very good and are tiny.

 

[dj2]

does anyone know the brand of gluten free waffles at chef mickey's? i had some 2 years ago and the chef brought the bag to my table so i could doublecheck the ingredients and i was amazed because i could really eat them. i've never found a mix in the stores near me that was ok for me to eat (i have more than just gluten issues). i'd been meaning to call them and ask but keep forgetting. and as i'm remembering them again now while i'm surfing the web at 1 a.m. that phone call will have to wait awhile.

 

[snorris49]

does anyone know the brand of gluten free waffles at chef mickey's? i had some 2 years ago and the chef brought the bag to my table so i could doublecheck the ingredients and i was amazed because i could really eat them. i've never found a mix in the stores near me that was ok for me to eat (i have more than just gluten issues). i'd been meaning to call them and ask but keep forgetting. and as i'm remembering them again now while i'm surfing the web at 1 a.m. that phone call will have to wait awhile.

They use a couple of different mixes at the restaurants. The first is Bob's Red Mill Pancake/Waffle mix and the other is Namaste mix. Some locations just use Bob's Red Mill and other's Namaste. Art of Animation's Landscape of Flavors uses a mix of both brands for their allergy friendly waffles.

I'm pretty sure that Chef Mickey's uses the Bob's Red Mill (at least that's what they were using the last time I went about a year ago).

 

[dj2]

snorris49, i'm so grateful to you for posting. i checked ingredients online and the namaste looks like it might be the one. i'm just not sure how he made it without the egg that it says needs to be added. but it's worth a shot. i don't do any alllergen-free baking, but i might be able to go online and figure out some other ingredient which can function as the egg. thanks again!!! dj

 

[livndisney]

We are finding more places with "no" options. Garden Grill had no gluten free or dairy free dessert options. We were given hard as a rock melon. (Which went well with the hard as a rock Udi's rolls). 50's we found out after the meal, we had a new chef . Which explained why we had so much trouble. The chef came out, we agree to a menu-none of that happened. He mixed up allergies..... not good. Pizza planet tried, but had very little options. Only one place had rice dream ice cream (chef served it to me by mistake). No dairy free/soy free cheese (even after we were told it was available).

 

[Evi]

Its been 9 months since my last trip to disney. But I feel like for the most part they do a great job with food allergies. I have had a bad incident at 1 restaurant and though it really is unacceptable I just won't go there again. I have anaphylactic food allergies and oral allergy syndrome. I always carry my epipen with me and chewable children's benadryl. My list of no no foods is long and contains everything from tree nuts, legumes, soy, birch and most fruits and non leafy green vegetables. Considering what I can't eat, I look forward to going to disney and being able to sit down in a restaurant and have a meal. I don't expect them to cater to my allergies at any of the counter service restaurants and do hit the local market to pick up snacks that I can eat and carry them into the parks with me. In truth I have a limited selection of local restaurants I can eat at so going to disney and being able to eat out is a treat. I'm sorry so many people seem so disappointed with things like bread etc but for me there are no safe breads except for Udi's flat bagels thats it unless I make it myself. So eating a burger wrapped in lettuce isn't going to make or break a disney trip for me.
There still needs to be a lot of education about the difference between life threatening allergies and oral allergy syndrome. I get that you don't want to eat something that can cause discomfort but thats different from your life being put in peril if you do eat it. I feel like people wanting to eat paleo or having birch cross sensitivity can avoid what they don't like and even ask for a substitution they don't' need to go through the whole food allergy system. Because you can push those things off your plate they aren't going to kill you. Until the system is truly used for medical reasons its always going to be flawed.

 

[EEyorelover22]

snorris49, i'm so grateful to you for posting. i checked ingredients online and the namaste looks like it might be the one. i'm just not sure how he made it without the egg that it says needs to be added. but it's worth a shot. i don't do any alllergen-free baking, but i might be able to go online and figure out some other ingredient which can function as the egg. thanks again!!! dj

They use an egg replacer, but I cannot remember what kind and it probably varies by location.

 

[ls15]

They use an egg replacer, but I cannot remember what kind and it probably varies by location.

I have found that the majority of chefs use applesauce.

 

[clanmcculloch]

When talking to chefs, some have used Ener-G egg replacers while others use apple sauce as the egg alternative for waffles. They do definitely make egg free allergy waffles as my DD14 is egg free.

 

[party-of-five]

Hi all, I've been reading thru this thread looking for my answer, but couldn't find what I was looking for.

Does anyone know the ingredients for disney's french fries?

DS will be 14 months on our trip in less than two weeks. He is allergic to soy, dairy, corn, oatmeal, barly, avacado. I've decided it will just be easier to pack his food. (Hoping I won't have any trouble with tsa when I try to get a weeks worth of frozen homemade baby food thru security. His doctor has written a letter.). He loves French fries and does fine with BK's fries. (They use soybean oil, but that seems to be ok because it doesn't contain the protein). I know he will be flipping out for fries when he sees his siblings eating them! Just want to be prepared.

Thanks

 

[disfan07]

Hi all, I've been reading thru this thread looking for my answer, but couldn't find what I was looking for.

Does anyone know the ingredients for disney's french fries?

DS will be 14 months on our trip in less than two weeks. He is allergic to soy, dairy, corn, oatmeal, barly, avacado. I've decided it will just be easier to pack his food. (Hoping I won't have any trouble with tsa when I try to get a weeks worth of frozen homemade baby food thru security. His doctor has written a letter.). He loves French fries and does fine with BK's fries. (They use soybean oil, but that seems to be ok because it doesn't contain the protein). I know he will be flipping out for fries when he sees his siblings eating them! Just want to be prepared.

Thanks

As far as I know, disneys fries do contain soy. Im not sure if it's soy oil or what it is b/c I'm not allergic to soy but someone else probably knows exactly what the soy ingredient is in the fries.