Another ? regarding food budget

[mom4scrapbooking]

How much should I budget for food per person? Say for one counter service and one sit down meal a day. No character meals and bringing in our own drinks.

Thanks so much for helping me plan this great trip!

 

[LavenderPeach]

Here's the link to the menus at allears.net which is updated regularly so the prices should be pretty accurate: http://allears.net/dlr/din/menu/menus.htm#dl

Hope that helps!

 

[LuLusApple]

I budget 35-40$ per person per day. That includes drinks snacks sit downs and all. If I use less that's great but I havnt gone over lol

 

[heatherleigh]

The $40 budget sounds good. We are budgeting $200 per day for a family of 6, with a baby and a kid who doesn't eat.

 

[Mommy2PrincessAbby]

When it is just DD and I we plan for $100 a day... usually comes in a little under that, but that is better than being short!

 

[Dobie]

I budget $40.00, including one nice dinner, one counter service lunch, and snacks. We have a separate holy budget for holy water.

 

[wdwfan22]

I was glad to read all the replies as I was wondering the same thing myself. I think after reading those, I will budget $50 per person to include meals with drinks and snacks - I have to have my dole whip

 

[bumbershoot]

We're on the LOW side of food budgeting, as we have, in the past, budgeted $100 per day for everyone's food and souvenirs. But there are only 3 of us, and none of us drink soda, we're vegetarian, we share meals, and DS & DH can't eat most of the "snack" food type items b/c of ingredient issues. I'm the snackiest one, as I like my iced lattes (but we do all buy the expensive fruit!).

We also only rarely do a character meal; and only one per visit when we do one.

 

[SaraK]

$50/day just doesn't seem like enough after looking the prices!

We're budgeting $100/day for two adults and a 5 year old boy (who has a hearty appetite!) If we do counter service meals for lunch (without soda) those are roughly $8-10 per person, so there's $30. Dinners look like about $15-$20 per person, so there's another $50-60. We plan on ordering breakfast and snack items from Vons (and a case of water) to save on costs. But, if you throw in a few snacks anyway that's probably another $10/day, so 30+50+10 = $90! And that's not including a character meal and whatever we pay to Vons ($50?) for breakfast/snack items. It's sad that our food will cost more than our plane tickets and more than our hotel. I really hope I'm overestimating!

 

[thewritegirl]

$50/day just doesn't seem like enough after looking the prices!

We're budgeting $100/day for two adults and a 5 year old boy (who has a hearty appetite!) If we do counter service meals for lunch (without soda) those are roughly $8-10 per person, so there's $30. Dinners look like about $15-$20 per person, so there's another $50-60. We plan on ordering breakfast and snack items from Vons (and a case of water) to save on costs. But, if you throw in a few snacks anyway that's probably another $10/day, so 30+50+10 = $90! And that's not including a character meal and whatever we pay to Vons ($50?) for breakfast/snack items. It's sad that our food will cost more than our plane tickets and more than our hotel. I really hope I'm overestimating!

SaraK, I think they were recommending $50/day per person, not total. So, if there's three of you, the recommendation would be $150/day.

However, it really just depends on how much you want to/can afford. We just got back from a week stay, and I started a post about how we fed a family of four on about $50/day in the park - but that included cost saving measures like eating a full free breakfast, bringing our own snacks in, etc.

 

[SaraK]

Yes, you're right, I see that now! I was wondering what their magic trick was to eat on $50 total!!

 

[WereObsessed]

I second using allears.net as a guide. Whenever my sister and I go we always eat entirely inside the park. The lowest we have ever gotten away with was $35 in a day for both of us (we like kids meals and we don't eat alot). I can't really comment on a daily budget for a child, some eat as much as I do, and some barely eat, so you never really can tell. If you are going to be realistically conservative, and you plan on one sit down meal in the park a day, I think $50 a person (adult) is conceivable. But also bare in mind that food can also be the highlight of a trip for some people, in which case they may budget $100 a person (adult). Browse allears.net's database, it's rather fun!

 

[Anj]

We just got back, 2 adults and 3 small kids (2, 5, and 7 yrs old) and we averaged around $240- per day for all of us. We did 1 to 2 sit downs per day (this includes 2 character meals and 1 meal at Blue Bayou). We ate only in the parks or at DTD.

 

[Queenbillabong]

It depends on where you plan to do sit down meals. We just did Jazz Kitchen and that was roughly $50 pp for dinner plus a drink....... I would look at the allears.net menu and see what you want, see the prices, etc., and go from there. Some places are quite expensive.