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'You don't need to eat, we had a big breakfast'

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Amberzak said:
Indeed. I'll be doing that next time, keeping some money aside. They search your bags for food st the theme park.

I'm so glad the holiday is over. I really wish my husband had come on holiday.

He doesn't get any of my issues to be honest so I don't know why I'm surprised. He cross contaminates my gluten free while cooking (I'm coeliac), he moans when I need a break from walking and moaned at my mum for hiring me a mobility scooter to get around the park (doctors think I have ms but not formally diagnosed yet). I even heard him saying to my mum once that I'm a hypercondriac. Just because I have lots wrong with me.
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Rip of Britain highlighted places here also not allowing you to take food in and searching bags, and food being expensive!
 
Just been looking at Disney World regulations and they seem to be more clued up than those theme parks mentioned. They will allow food items so long as they don't need heating and so long as you tell security rather than let them look for it. They also are willing to listen if you let them know special food requirements before you go. That info was gleaned from Disney's web site, sounds good in theory, so long as you're in the US or France.

Looking at a few of the others, those in the US seem to be much more enlightened in recognising that people may have special requirements, the UK seems to say that they can cope with any requirement so don't bring any.
 
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Disney parks in general are great. When we go Disneyland paris we will always make a couple of extra rolls etc at breakfast and have no problems taking them into the parks with us. We just tell security that im diabetic and they are fine. We had the same in America last year too.
 
[QUOTE="Amberzak, post: 642611, member: 12401" (doctors think I have ms but not formally diagnosed yet)..[/QUOTE]
Sometimes B12 deficiency can be taken for MS. Have you had your B12 checked. They could tell you that you are not deficient when you are in range, but if you are low in the range it does mean there is some deficiency there. Lack of B12 can cause a problem with the Myolin (sp) just like MS.
 
How understanding is your mum of your medical conditions? Could she not have a word with her husband? I have to admit that I don't know what it's like to get remarried (still happily on the first one at the moment), but I'd like to think that no man could ever come between me and my child, or tell me how to look after her, even when she's grown up!
 
How legal, or not, is searching you and your bags for food? That is horrendous and if anyone searched me or my bags for food they would get a knee in the crotch.
 
I know Disney only do bag searches for security reasons they arent too worried if people take food in.
 
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