In my opinion, looking at the food is the most fun thing when I am planning ANY vacation! We are not going to Disney this year (we are going back next summer), but we are going to Lancaster, PA instead (taking the kids to Hershey and Dutch Wonderland), and I have found so many restaurants for us to enjoy! I still look at allears menus at least once a week for WDW restaurants, I can't help it! Whenever there is that little green "NEW!" icon next to a restaurant I get all *giddy* inside!
Food is very important to DH and to myself as well. We also love variety on vacation. That is why I like to check out the menus. We were at Disney for 5 nights last summer and I only had one burger the entire trip, and we ate on property the entire trip. We love the Epcot restaurants, that is why we will be going to the parks for 7 days instead of 6 on our 10-night trip next summer...we figure that since we are staying at BWV, we could walk over to the World Showcase on the third Epcot day and just enjoy eating around the world for lunch, shopping and relaxing a little in the countries, relaxing at the resort, and going back to Epcot for a nice TS dinner in one of the countries. You know, a day dedicated more to food and no attractions so it is a more relaxed day, and we could do the Epcot attractions on the other 2 days we are there.
We also enjoyed the Disney food very much, even at the character buffet dinners. Actually we thought those were very good, especially Crystal Palace. The only thing I am hesitant about trying at Disney is Italian food because we are so darn picky when it comes to Italian. The only one I would even consider for that is Tutto Italia, but I have a friend going there in a couple of weeks and she knows my taste in Italian very well so she is going to let me know how it is. The reason this is the only one I would consider is because in the WS at Epcot, the people who work in each country are actually from that country. But I still want to see if they "Americanize" it too much or if it really is authentic.
Anyway, we love food on vacation, we watch what we eat normally so we love to live it up when we are away, plus we only go away once a year. So the food is very important to us and the most fun thing to plan!