Breakfast on dining plan?

[kitkat4622]

My plan is to book a few breakfast/character meals on the ddp. My question is for the days I don't my plan was to pay out of pocket for breakfast (wherever that may be) use QS for lunch and TS for dinner. does anyone else do this or do you just have something in your room to grab and go such as cereal bars, granola bars for something similar?

 

[Baklava]

There seem to be a lot of good snack options for breakfast.

 

[sharadoc]

Yes, we all do! You can grab breakfast foods in your resort gift shop, or bring a box of cereal and buy milk there. It's the best way to handle it. Consider some lunches for your TS too.

 

[bc7ate9]

We do a variety of things whether we are on the DDP or not. We usually have granola bars and other small snack so sometimes they are breakfast. Sometimes we have a QS meal, sometimes a TS meal...Sometimes we use a DDP credit, sometimes we don't...I don't really know what you are asking or wondering about.

 

[LinderInWonderland]

We had small breakfast stuff in our room for non-character meal breakfast days. Breakfast cookies, Lara Bars, bananas, yogurt and V-8 fusion. We only did two character breakfasts ('Ohana and Tusker House) and did QS for lunch and TS dinners most days. On character breakfast days, we scheduled them for as late as possible, had snacks on us (or bought some) and did QS dinner.
Edited to add: DH and DSIL are snacky breakfast people as a rule. I am the only one who could eat a full breakfast every day. I was worried about the DDP not providing for 3 meals daily before we went, but honestly you get so much food at each meal that I never felt hungry and we ended up with a ton of snack credits to use at the end of our trip!

 

[Crystal824]

We usually eat stuff in our room such as cereal bars, muffins, fruit.

 

[rwdavis2]

We usually eat stuff in our room such as cereal bars, muffins, fruit.

This. We stop at a grocery on the way from airport.

 

[SnipsNSnails]

We find that in general the DDP has more than enough food that it's easy to stretch it to 3 meals. If you have lighter eaters, have them share a QS lunch, then use the other QS meals for breakfast. The bounty platters are huge and can feed a couple people a light breakfast and since you have your mugs for drinks, sub the drink for an additional snack item to make it go even further. We ended up with a ton of snacks left at the end even with everyone having a snack whenever they wanted one so towards the end we used those for muffins etc. for breakfast as well. We have also brought our TS desserts back to the room and had them for breakfast the next day. I don't believe we brought any additional food items last time. This time since my parents winter in FL now, we will be flying in and leaving from their house the next day so we will probably bring some breakfast items along just in case, but it won't be a lot! I'm thinking we'll bring a case of water too. Last time we got bottled water as our beverage for breakfasts to take into the parks but now that we can sub a snack item instead, it makes more sense to just bring some water.

 

[JPKnapp]

One of the things that I wished we changed from our last trip was doing too many character breakfasts in the park. We had 3 scheduled during our 1 week trip. It turned out to be poor use of time for us. We were on the DDP last trip as well, same plan as you. We should have used the low crowd times in the park, versus in a restaurant. We are an early riser family and pretty light breakfast eaters. We should have just brought our own food for the AM.

This time through, we have either character lunch (mid-day rest during high crowds) or a pre-open CRT.

 

[Bonesdodisney]

We had cereal bars and snacks in our room as I was worried about running out of credits but we had loads left over at the end so probably should have used some QS and snacks at breakfast. We had 4 character breakfast and 1 QS breakfast the rest where left over desserts and cereal bars

 

[texasroni75]

So many options. We stay Value and Mod so they have counter service breakfast options (Mickey waffles!) at our own resort. When driving, we've brought breakfast foods from home, too. We've also done quick breakfast items like pastries at Starring Rolls in DHS and the bakeries (Starbucks) at Epcot and MK. Giving Amazon Prime Pantry a try in a few weeks for our next stay, so ordering snacks and breakfast items for the room that way.

 

[401Disney]

My wife and I usually do exactly what you said. Pay for breakfast OOP QS lunch and then TS dinner. Sometimes we might switch the order around a bit depending on what our schedule for the day is but its a fairly solid plan in my opinion. It just depends on what kind of touring plan you go by I guess.

 

[5kidsmommy]

For our upcoming trip which is actually the first time we will be using the dining plan we have two breakfasts scheduled, one is 1900 Park Fare because my daughter wants to see Alice and the other is a pre-park BOG. For our other breakfasts I plan on just eating breakfast in the room. We are not big breakfast eaters at home, we usually just grab something light, so we will bring muffins and yogurt to keep in the room. I am thinking though because we are not big eaters that we might split a quick service breakfast or two since I am sure we will have extra meals.

 

[BudgieMama]

We bought bread, butter and jam at the resort shop and had toast most mornings as a get me going snack... (No car, so no trip to the supermarket option for us, and we don't need enough stuff to make Garden Grocer or the like worth it.) We found on our last day we had 3/14 snack credits left and 8/14 QS credits left from our DDP. The meal portions are so big we didn't need more than toast, one TS meal and maybe a snack to share most days! We occassionally shared a QS if we had a dinner reservation, but mostly we had plenty of food. We're on QSDP next time, and don't plan on buying any food until all our credits are gone!