Best way to save on food?

[msce2]

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Here are a few tips I learned.

Order a double cheeseburger. For $.69 extra you can get another hamburger bun. Split the patty's and the fixin's and viola you have 2 hamburgers.

At Cosmic Rays you can get a 1/2 rotisserie chicken with potatoes and veggies for $9. Split this btwn the 2 adults. BRING YOUR OWN DRINKS! And have the 2 kids split a kids meal. You can eat for around $15.

Also for kids meals don't pay for what you're not going to eat. If you have your own drinks, ask for the meal without the drink. The price will go down. There is one place that gives the meal in a sand bucket. Again, if you're not going to use it don't get it.

Don't buy breakfast in the park. I would grab some breakfast and snack items that your kids will enjoy and bring them with you. Eat them on the way to the bus. And again, bring your own drinks. You can also order tap water at any restaurant for free.

 

[SunnieRN]

I'm late to the party here, but I see a lot of snack choices in people's suggestions to the OP to save money, and this to us is a waste of money. I'm not sure how spending $3 or $4 on a small croissant or churros is a good usage of the food budget. A $1 apple or banana would be cheaper, and fill someone up more, IMHO. Disney food is expensive, but we prefer spending it on food, and not wasted snacks. I understand that snacks will be cheaper than a meal, but not necessarily as they don't fill up, and then people are going to be looking for more food, when they could have bought a sandwich to begin with.

I think the best way for OP to save money on WDW food is to share CS meals (if they can share a hotdog 3 ways, then sharing a CS meal would probably work out well for them), do not eat TS, eat off site, eat breakfast in room, and bring all snacks into parks (crackers, water, fruit).

By the way, crockpots and grills are not allowed in rooms except our DVC villas due to fire regulations. Guests should definitely not be bringing these appliances into value, moderate or deluxe rooms.

Good luck OP on your travels - we have spent literally thousands upon thousands of dollars on WDW food, and we ourselves are becoming more budget conscious as well as WDW food is getting more expensive, service is suffering and subpar food has become the norm.

Tiger

OP was talking about getting her kids mickey bars so I think the snack suggestions were really good!

 

[Tiger926]

OP was talking about getting her kids mickey bars so I think the snack suggestions were really good!

I was talking about all of the suggestions for pop tarts, churros and pastries to eat as meals. I just think that these kinds of high sugar snack foods are not necessarily very healthy, and will not really fill up that much as they are full of sugar. I took it that people were suggesting snack foods to be used as meals because they are cheaper than food, and people specifically mentioned these types of foods for breakfast. For me, a bowl of oatmeal (not instant sugary kind), whole wheat toast or fruit would be a much better choice, and they would be cheaper too.

Tiger