Straight from the OC Register’s Around Disney’s Blog:
Four years ago, Disney parks began an endeavor to create healthier kids’ meals.
Now, the Disneyland Resort’s two parks offer lower-calorie meals at all of its restaurants. At the parks alone, 38 menu options are available. Another 40 are on hotel restaurant and room-service menus.
Children automatically get healthy sides and drinks, such as carrots and milk when they order a kids’ meal. Still, visitors can request fries or sodas. But about 60 percent of visitors choose the healthier options.
The maximum guidelines for a meal: 550 calories, 35 percent of calories from fat, no added trans fats and 10 percent of sugar added or none when possible. Click, “more” for the list of new food items.
Here are kids’ menu items offered at the parks’ quick-service restaurants.
The cost is about $6 each:
Turkey wrap: Turkey, lettuce and flour tortilla with apple slices.
Baked chicken: Drumstick with green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, apple slices or baby carrots.
Penne bolognese: Penne pasta with bolognese sauce, served with grapes.
Chicken: Fried chicken drumstick with green beans, mashed potato, gravy, apple slices or baby carrots.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich: Uncrustable sandwich with grapes and apple slices.
Little Carvers turkey sandwich: Sandwich with grapes and apple slices.
Little Carvers roast New York sandwich: Sandwich with grapes and apple slices.
Power meal: Sliced apples, string cheese, Goldfish crackers and low-fat, four-ounce yogurt.
Chicken breast nugget meal: Chicken nuggets with apple slices.
Hamburger with apple slices.
Kids-sized cheese pizza: Cheese, crust, sauce with baby carrots and apple slices.
Macaroni and cheese with grapes.
Beef eye of round: Roasted eye of round beef, rice pilaf, grapes, carrot and celery sticks.
Chicken and rice: Grilled chicken breast, rice pilaf, grapes, carrot and celery sticks.
Turkey hot dog: A six-inch turkey frank on a bun with apple slices.
Burrito meal: Bean burrito, Mexican rice and Dole fruit cup.
Taco meal: Chicken taco, Mexican Rice and Dole fruit cup.
Terriyaki chicken and rice with a fruit cup.
Tri Tip with mashed potatoes, grapes and strawberries.
Pasta and meatball lollipops: Whole-wheat pasta, turkey meatballs, grapes and strawberries.
Chicken skewer with rice pilaf, grapes and strawberries.
Aero sliders: Mini burgers with apple slices.
Two toddler meals are available for kids 3 and under. The cost is about $4.
Toddler meal with macaroni and cheese: Apple sauce is an option on some menus.
Toddler meal: Chicken, rice and apple sauce.
