Orlando & Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

In my experience if you carefully read the labels than you will be fine as far as prepackaged foods go. Restaurants vary. I have not had great experience with most restaurants so we don't eat out hardly at all and I always go to the few we know are safe. I also was dealing with an egg allergy too for a long time which makes it more difficult.

I suggest checking out websites for particular restaurants you want to go to and looking for their menus and allergy information.

Are you doing Disney World? They are very good about food allergies. Check out www.allearsnet.com for a good FAQ on DW and food allergies.

Good luck and have a good vacation!

You might be better off getting a hotel room with a kitchen and preparing some of your own meals to make it easier to go Peanut free and it will probably be cheaper too. We also utilize this when we travel.

I am 22 years old and have lived with a peanut allergy all of my life, and have found that as long as I am really careful about what I eat, that I won't get sick. Do not eat anything that says "may contain" on the packaging. Also, stay away from all friend foods. Even if a restaurant does not use peanut oil in their fryer, they may have fried something with peanuts or nuts on it (such as pecan crusted chicken). Its great that you have your own kitchen so you dont have to worry about a lot.

We recently came back from disney. We ate at McDonalds quite often with no problems. We do consider McDonalds to be in our comfort zone. The Disney restaurants are also very accommodating. If you can make reservations in advance, they will be prepared for you upon arrival. (At least that was our experience).

Labels in the US will tell you if peanuts or tree nuts are ingredients in the item, but not all companies label for "may contains", so beware. If you check the "safe brands" thread, you should find some good options for brands that do label for cross-contamination.

Have a safe and happy trip!

Mcdonalds was always safe for me in regards to my nut allergy, but I haven't been able to eat there since I developed my sesame seed allergy :( If sesame seeds aren't a problem, however, then I'm pretty sur McDonalds is safe!