We are back, had a great trip.
We stayed at the Double Tree Lake Buena Vista near Disney Springs. There are bunch of hotels (Best Western, B Resort, Hilton, and a few more on Hotel Plaza Blvd) in this area that are not owned by Disney but still have Disney transportation. So there were 2 buses starting at 8 am every morning...one went to MK and HS, the other to AK and Epcot...so it took about 30 mins to get to the first park, add 15 min to get to the second park. They picked up to return to the hotels about every 30 mins. Most of the hotels have a contract with one of the taxi company so if you stay in one be sure to check with them for transportation to and from the airport...we used Mears which was fine.
There is a grocery store called Goodings about 1/2 mile from our hotel...they had almost everything we would have needed...Udi's muffins, pepperidge farm bread, king's hawaiian bread, sunbutter, snacks, etc. I actually packed sunbutter, bread, snacks, paper towels, plastic bags, disposable knives, etc. so that we could bring lunch into the park for the kids. In the Gooding's Plaza, there were multiple restaurants including Moe's Southwestern Grill so we ate there there first night and walked back with a couple things from the grocery store.
Our hotel had continental breakfast...yogurts, whole fruit and cereals were available if the buffet was not safe for certain allergies. There was probably one muffin or pastry with nuts, but it didn't look like those were baked in house, but I did not ask. They made Mickey waffles from a mix at the buffet, the omelet chef brought out the package for me to read...no warnings, it read safe so we went with it. DS had a banana, Mickey waffles and yogurt every morning. The rest of us at from the buffet. Since DH is a gold member it was only $5 to upgrade to full breakfast for adults, DS was free, and they should have charged us for DD, but just ignored the fact that she was older than 12.