Breakfast on DDP

[workinmom]

We are going in Aug & haven't decided about doing dining, but I had a question about breakfast. Do most of you eat in the resort before hitting the parks, thus using a CS on breakfast & then just get a snack in the afternoon, followed by a TS dinner? I don't want to waste all our CS on breakfast, but don't want to pay OOP either. Any suggestions?

 

[coachyo]

mom,
We usually eat something very simple or small before or as we leave our resort and then eat and early lunch using a CS credit and then have a TS meal for dinner. . If we do a TS breakfast some place it is usually a little later in the morning and then a CS credit for dinner. That helps us lower our oop expenses. 2 good meals a day and a snack is usually all we need.

YO

 

[Brer Shay]

We also generally use our CS for Lunch and TS for dinner. DH likes to have a real breakfast and will sometimes grab something at the resort food court while I get our plan for the day together. I'll frequently use my snack credit to buy a pastry item at the park that suffices as breakfast. Starring Rolls at the Hollywood Studios and the Main Street Bakery at MK are both great for this. When the kids go along, I usually give them cereal or oatmeal in the room before we head out.

 

[ChelleinNC]

I always bring stuff to have in the room: cereal, poptarts (ok, not healthy but it's a vacation) boxed mini muffins, granola bars, that sort of stuff. I do this whether we use the DDP or not. I found we save not just money this way, but a lot of time.

 

[shaycamp21]

We usually get an order from gardengrocer.com of BF essentials like bagels and cream cheese, granola bars, milk and cereal and water of course (this saves on having to use snack credits on water). Then we would eat breakfast in the room while getting ready and don't miss out on park touring. Then we usually have an early cs lunch and a ts dinner. In the past we've had some sleep in days where we go for a character bf trying to get a 11:00 am or later seating so it would serve as bf and lunch. We did this one day when we were doing DTD (DQ and shopping) and it worked out well. We had a CS dinner at Wolfgang Puck's Express which almost felt like TS since the food is great and they serve it to you.

 

[bigbabyblues]

If we're not doing a character breakfast, we grab something in the food court. We can split 2 cs meals between us (one adult and one childs platter), or else we just pay cash for it.

 

[irene_dsc]

We ordered groceries from WeGoShop.com, and either ate in the room, or brought protein bars/granola bars with us. Tho, one morning, dd and I did eat muffins, using snack credits. Then, CS lunch and TS dinner...

 

[beroh2253]

1 day during our stay we go over to POR (love the food court there) and get a CS breakfast (a combo meal). And on our get away day we try to get to Boma for a TS breakfast.
But most mornings we run over to the food court we are staying at, fill the mugs with coffee and get a box of donuts (used to get a box with 1 SC but no more) so we will OOP the donuts, We need the sugar rush for attacking the parks.
Every other CS is for lunch, TS for dinner and the snacks for a pastry at Kringla in Norway or Main Street Bakery and I see France now has some pastries on the list.

 

[ssawka]

Unless you're a big breakfast eater, I would use a snack credit for breakfast. You can get muffin, danish, etc. Also, cereal and milk only count as 1 snack credit.

 

[DW mouser]

There are six of us. I am planning on charging breakfast at Roaring Forks to my room key card and paying for it with Disney Rewards when we check out. That way everyone can have whatever, big breakfast or just a muffin and we still have our counter service for lunch and table service for the evening meal and our snack for mid- afternoon. I know, we'll gain 6-7 lbs.!!

 

[morgy827]

We always used our CS for breakfast. The breakfasts were so big that they usually held us over until dinner and if not we got to use one of our snack credits for a great mickey ice cream bar in between. Dinner was always so filling that we were never hungry afterwards for a snack so this worked out great for us.

 

[grumpalina]

we plan on using TS for character meals & HDDR, CS for lunch and bringing/ordering clif bars, yogurt, etc for breakfast. especially to hit the parks at rope drops, i want portable stuff to eat on the bus!

how does "coffee" (i know, it's awful!) work- do you need to use a snack credit for coffee?

 

[coachyo]

grumpalina,
If you are on site, buy a mug at the resort for $12 and you have unlimited refills of coffee and soda while you are at the resort. It does not work in the parks only at your resort.

YO

 

[gigi1313]

we found that sharing CS meals was the way to go... both my kids are "adults" by disney's standards, and we would get two CS breakfast platters, divvy it up (which was easy, one kid eats sausage/biscuit, one eats eggs, i eat potatoes/bacon, dh eats most of the other platter! ) and then do the same at lunchtime... we found it to be enough food w/out going oop too often (but occasionally we did, if someone wanted something special and no one wanted to share! LOL!)... we also used our snack credits to supplement and sometimes used our rewards card for snacks!