Vacation Food Backlash

I have been MIA lately while my family went on a trip to Disney World. We love Disney. It’s fun for all of us and honestly I love it as much as my 3 year old does. Each time we go we get the Disney Dining Plan. This allows me the opportunity to have a vacation from the kitchen and still stay within a reasonable budget while eating out every meal for a week. This is the first time we have been to Disney since making our proclamation to eat as much local in season food as possible. Over the past 6 months our diet has made a lot of changes. We eat a lot of vegetables, we have always had the obligatory veggies with each meal, but now veggies play a starring role in my cooking. We also only eat grass fed beef/milk and pastured chickens/eggs. Our food taste so good and we have never felt healthier. I am also pretty proud actually that when I open the fridge door about 70% of what I see came from a local farm. OK, back to Disney food. We love picking from all the fancy themed restaurants at Disney and ordering anything we want whether it be the $38 steak or the $15 burger. We try to still eat “healthyish” and avoid fried foods and overly processed food. However, this time we noticed something, Disney does not do a lot of vegetables. We’d order a steak and got a huge steak with potatoes and like one piece of edible greenery. Salads on the menu are harder to find and often not included on the dining plan we picked. Vegetable choices are usually fries or another form of potato or mayonnaised up something or another. By mid-week our bodies we not working optimally and we felt the toll way more than we ever expected. I often woke up at night feeling nausea and my husband said he felt bloated and icky (my word not his) often too. It made us realize how much better we feel with our new modified diet of fresh healthy food and thankful that we have the opportunity to eat how we do. We have been home a week or so now and our bodies have been rejoicing in the fresh basket of vegetables from our CSA this week. We will re-think our dining methods for our next vacation to avoid the backlash our bodies dole out.