to take a slow cooker to Disneyland Paris?

[ElizaPickford]

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.)

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.

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

This thread is a sobering realisation of how spiteful, condescending, judgemental, patronising and passively aggressive MNers can be. I've always been polite on MY. But this is the first time I've posted especially to say please just FUCK OFF to all those dicks who are sitting in judgement about someone choosing to go to DL, about those who dare suggest the french are not too good at vegetarian, about the OP wanting to pay for food she actually WANTS to eat rather than is resigned to eat and the biggest FUCK OFF to those who feel that the OP shouldn't have booked a holiday if she couldn't afford to eat expensive rubbish food or should have booked somewhere other than DL.

It's her life. She'll go where she bloody wants.

What I truly don't understand is why people continue to come on and post an opinion after reading the first page of the thread only, especially when 101 people have already said exactly the same thing and she doesn't need to hear it again and all the more so if she wasn't planning on doing something so ridiculous anyway. This is magnified X 10 in stupidity when the OP has posted her response and made her decision yet people still come here and post as if they are the first person replying.

Have a good holiday OP. Btw, I'll be taking a slow cooker to my next holiday too. Not DL but somewhere far, for 4 weeks.

Well it is hard being vegetarian in France!! Unless you specify (and even if you do specify no meat or fish) you often get a bacon garnish or such like! It is especially hard if you are a very strict vegetarian as vegetarian cheese is rare. However, it is improving.

OP will be fine - it will just take a bit of juggling and I think she has had some good advice on the thread.

about those who dare suggest the french are not too good at vegetarian

Um, it's true.

Sorry no advice.... the randomness of your title has just made me chuckle

I am veggie and took my 8 yo at half term. I checked out menus and had a rough idea where we would eat each day. Yes if you eat at the rainforest cafe it is £15 for burger and chips but you don't have to pay that much. Not everywhere has much in the way of veggie options but all do something. Salad, chips, burger, pasta, pizza.

We tended to have a big breakfast and another big meal usually in the evening, then a snack /smaller meal at lunch. One day we shared a bruchetta, crips and a muffin. A couple of days we just got crepes with Nutella from a stand. Another day we went in blockbuster cafe which is self service and had a pasta meal deal/kids meal deal. And another I just had chips and side salad.

We didn't spend as much over all on food as I expected. For our big meals we had a buffet a couple of times which are good value. Buzz light years pizza planet is one of the cheapest and we ate at our hotel one night (the Santa fe).

If you want to prep food yourselves I wouldn't try and cook. Just make a picnic or buy sandwiches to take in (you can get bits at the railway station outside the park or the garage near the Santa fe). For something hot at the hotel stick to cup a soup, smash, pot noodles. However we were hardly in our hotel tending to make the most of the parks so you might want to bear that in mind.

And apologies if all that had been said but I didn't read all the replies.

Have a great time, we did, the place is amazing

TheDietStartsTomorrow clearly has absolutely no sense of humour. The reason people were still posting after ten pages is because the mental picture of slow-cookering in a hotel room, whether it be in Paris or Skegness is funny . Funny! Ever heard of that? A few people sneered at holidaying at Disneyworld/land and that is out of order, but having a laugh at someone clearly doing something not only bizarre but anti-social is fair game.

Ghbb

Zombie thread

Didn't mean to ressurect this. Sorry. I was reading the thread and accidently posted nonsense.

I did enjoy reading it though.