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to take a slow cooker to Disneyland Paris?

262 replies

ElizaPickford · 25/03/2015 20:23

Ok, that sounds a bit odd, but here's the thing, we're going and the whole family is veggie (and now skint.) I couldn't justify spending nearly £70 a day on meal vouchers, and it looks like Disney and France in general have different ideas about what constitutes being vegetarian. (One of the veggie options in one restaurant was fish and chips, and one of the best veggie restaurants apparently uses meat stock for veggie dishes.) Hmm

If we just pay as we go, I think we're looking at £15 each for chips and salad. It's crazy expensive, and I don't want to pay through the nose for the kids to eat crap for almost a whole week.

Soooooo... I was thinking if I took my slow cooker, we could at least have baked potatoes when we get back at night? And maybe couscous if I take the kettle? I can take some fresh stuff with me although we'll have no fridge so that will be limited, but just trying to figure out if this is a socially unacceptable thing to do, and whether I run the risk of burning down the whole hotel when the euro-adapter blows up my slow cooker. Wink

Or any other tips for not starving to death/going bankrupt while there?

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Cheeseandhamtoast · 26/03/2015 20:52

I've had an awful day today but this thread has made me Grin so thank you op!!

Have a good holiday. We were broke when we went to Disney Paris and took stole rolls from breakfast for our lunch. Then went out for dinner, we were exhausted by evening and didn't care what we were eating.

coxiegirl · 26/03/2015 21:30

Are you going in your car ElizaP? If so there are supermarches not too far away and salad, cheese, bread and butter are all great. We took noodles once but there is the whole knackeredness and hungry tired cold kids thing that made it less appealing in the doing than it was in the planning.
We stayed in the Cheyenne first time, there was no fridge and no table so we all ate sitting on the beds, it wasn't much fun but did save a bit.
Now we go to Davy Crockett and I am completely getting a slow cooker for next time we go because of your brilliant idea, thank you!
For our veggie, McD's is ok (outside the park, in the village) their salads in France bear no relation to what passes for salad over here (it's really nice); last time we went they were doing a pasta salad, went down very well. Also you can order at a screen which I like so you can take your time to pick and don't feel like you have to rush and can't explain properly and end up with the wrong things. (I know it's McD's but for that holiday experience it does make an easy option.)
If you are going on the train and the kids are young-ish the only place we found to get food was the little shop at the station - there's a lot of walking all day already and getting to the supermarket and back to the hotel was not do-able for us - also it's great to spend most of your time in the parks, that's what it's all about!
Just my opinion. You'll have a great time, it's loads of fun!
Oh, take a backpack full of crisps and biscuits and kitkats and raisins and drinks and loads and loads of stuff (including extras from breakfast) for when you are standing in queues and the kids moan on (or that might just be us Confused )

coxiegirl · 26/03/2015 21:33

Ooh Welshmaednad yes completely agree, Agrabah was fab and had a lot of veggie stuff!

Nix01 · 26/03/2015 21:58

We found the food available in the park to be overpriced junk food. I took a lot of bottled water, nuts and healthier snacks but we did eat at least one junk meal a day. Felt so ill after a week!

Nix01 · 26/03/2015 22:08

Definitely take your own travel kettle, milk and tea.

I found this site very useful for DLP advice: www.disboards.com/forums/disneyland-paris-trip-planning-community-board.77/

liveloveluggage · 26/03/2015 22:12

This has to be the most MNetty thread ever!

maddening · 26/03/2015 22:13

Isn't There a self catering part?

TheChandler · 26/03/2015 22:15

Haven't read up the thread, but you're going to the culinary and restaurant capital of the world, the nation that invented Michelin stars, and you are so convinced you won't find edible healthy food there that you want to take a slow cooker?

Why didn't you just book a self-catering apartment?

This thread is a classic!

Awks · 26/03/2015 22:18

The elec goes off when you take your keyfob out of the hole so they wont cook. Otherwise it's a great idea :)

TartinaTiara · 26/03/2015 22:22

I wouldn't take the slow cooker to Disneyland. It'd be too little to go on any of the rides on its own, so you'd end up having to queue with it, and it'd just complain all the time about how it has nobody to play with and why didn't you fetch a pan or two along for company.

If you really feel it deserves a holiday (and I get this, I really do! Our slow cooker works so hard all winter without a break as well), I think it'd be happier on a canal boat.

Norfolkandchance1234 · 26/03/2015 22:22

We stayed at the Cheyenne too and just ate their massive buffet breakfast, borrowed ahem some fruit and rolls we filled for the day then ate their massive buffet dinner in the evening which included drinks. No way on earth would I be holed up in my room with a baked potato and a boiled kettle egg on my well deserved holiday. We didn't have time to snack during the day with all the rushing around so the free rolls and fruit were ample enough for us.

Original poster
ElizaPickford · 26/03/2015 22:52

TheChandler: fairly sure DLP isn't the "restaurant capital of the world." And France hates vegetarians. RTFT.

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TheChandler · 26/03/2015 22:53

ElizaPickford as a non-fat eating vegetarian, I coped pretty well at Disneyland Paris. was only there to watch a TDF stage though

SwirlyThingAlert · 26/03/2015 23:15

I'm going on holiday next week. I'll certainly be looking at the kettle in a new light.

BrendaBlackhead · 27/03/2015 08:34

I'm picturing OP returning to hotel room in evening rubbing hands with glee in anticipation of the lentil stew that's been bubbling away all day in slow cooker. She gets out of the lift and sniffs the air - but where is that lentilly aroma? Oh no! Horror! The lentils are hard bullets, the stock stone cold: the terrible truth dawns - the electricity is off when the room is unoccupied...

OP sadly delves in minibar behind the Toblerone for four eggs to boil in the kettle.

DisappointedOne · 27/03/2015 08:37

It shocked me last year that the gastronomic capital of the world allowed food such as you'd find at DLP! It's best to think you aren't in Paris while you're there. (Never mind that the French generally hate vegetarians anyway.)

LongDistanceLove · 27/03/2015 09:02

I have no advice for you op, but I hope you have a wonderful time.

I'm not sure why but the thought of someone boiling eggs in a shitty travel kettle has cracked me up.

Dieu · 27/03/2015 09:27

I'm still stunned at the person who boiled eggs in the hotel room kettle Hmm

Welshmaenad · 27/03/2015 11:19

Tartina Grin

TheFecklessFairy · 27/03/2015 11:57

Why do people keep saying...."bread, cheese....". It just shows how much knowledge of vegetarians you have............MOST CHEESE IS NOT VEGETARIAN !!

BabyGanoush · 27/03/2015 14:03

don't be an angry vegetarian

they make me so sad Sad

SandysMam · 27/03/2015 20:18

Flowers in advance for your rubbish holiday...

windchime · 27/03/2015 21:08

Why on earth go on holiday if you can't afford it? I remember being on holiday with my parents when I was small, and we had to come home three days early because they had run out of money because my mother had an insatiable jewellery habit

WayfaringStranger · 27/03/2015 21:20

windchine Read the thread if you're going to made snide comments. It was booked a while ago.

lomega · 27/03/2015 21:21

I had trips to Disney as a kid. My parents bought baguettes and cheese/meat from a Carrefour down the road, made up sandwiches the night before, and we took them with us for the day.