5 days and $300

[PurpleTurtle]

"Sometimes my readers' cleverness just astounds me. Consider this discovery by MouseSavers.com reader Lisa C: "In the resort food courts... you can buy two slices of bread (white or wheat) for $.69 plus tax." Peanut butter is about .50, and in some food courts it's free because there are packets of it with the condiments. Jelly can be obtained for free because it's a condiment. So for around a dollar or less, you can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich."

I think it can be done, it just will not be easy

Oh, man. My DH and I still laugh about the suggestion we read once on MouseSavers to save money by taking frozen 'meat-sicles' with you to the park in your fanny pack. By lunch, they should thaw, and then you can eat them for lunch! We decided then and there that we'd go whole hog and eat where we wanted to eat. Gross!!!

 

[fours]

Oh, man. My DH and I still laugh about the suggestion we read once on MouseSavers to save money by taking frozen 'meat-sicles' with you to the park in your fanny pack. By lunch, they should thaw, and then you can eat them for lunch! We decided then and there that we'd go whole hog and eat where we wanted to eat. Gross!!!

lololo...oh my gosh i cant believe someone would take a "meat-sicle" to a park..that is too darn funny..i guess if i had to worry about thawing meat while in the florida hot humid weather and eating soggy wet meat..id save a little longer.

 

[dvcdisney]

Oh, man. My DH and I still laugh about the suggestion we read once on MouseSavers to save money by taking frozen 'meat-sicles' with you to the park in your fanny pack. By lunch, they should thaw, and then you can eat them for lunch!

 

[quantumottle]

Doh! Nevermind...

 

[ambertides]

Luckily, we're local(ish), so we rarely spend more than $10-15 a day on food in the parks (unless it's the Food & Wine festival, then - uh, we kinda go overboard). Breakfast before we leave, dinner when we get home, and I have a little backpack insulated lunch box that brings our lunch/snacks (yogurt, applesauce, cheese sticks, and sandwiches, generally - mine on corn thins or rice cakes since I'm gluten intolerant). Beyond that, we usually get a frozen coke and popcorn to share, or a Dole Whip for me & turkey leg for DH if we're at MK. If you're staying somewhere with a kitchen the same could apply, I think.

We went on many field trips to Epcot when I was a kid and we always brown bagged it. I don't think I ever had more than a Mickey ice cream at a park before I was an adult. I think my first table service dining in the parks will be next month at DHS for our anniversary!