what we would do is we bought a box of donuts & pop tarts for the kids and i had my granola type bars so we wouldnt waste the credits so early in the day. We would eat these for a quick breakfast before heading to the parks in the morning. We would however eat an early lunch 11:00 using our counter service and by this time we would be hungry from walking around. This way we would be hungry by the time our early dinner times came around which was anywhere from 4:30 to 5:00. The snack credits we used a few times but had many left over. We used these for the rice krispy treats and minnies bake shop cookies to take home.