Food budget?

[justme73]

I know this has been mentioned a million times, but i cant find the exact thread! Anyway, we will be visiting the second week of September and i'm wondering how much $$$ to budget for food per day? We are planning on eating most of our breakfasts in room, stopping for cereal, etc at the grocery store on our way from airport. It is me, hubby and son who is 2 1/2. Is $100 a fair judgement? We have one character dinner planned and other than that, counter service for lunches we figured and similar for suppers. Any suggestions? I'm worried about bringing enough $$! Thanks!

 

[momof3disneyholics]

We went we when just had a 2 year old and this is how we budgeted food money.
We would eat breakfast at the hotel. We stayed off site so there was the free continental breakfast. Then we would eat counter service at the park for lunch. my 2 year old would share off of my plate because the portions are so big. Then for dinner, we would go to Shoneys or one of the buffets that my son could eat at free. We also did Chef Mickey's one night. We brought our own snacks from home. We kept it under 50.00 per day everyday with the exception of the day we went to Chef Mickey's.
Hope this helps!

 

[cheeringmom]

is a fair estimate. I have 2 teens and a 3 yr old and we don't budget much more. We, too, eat brkfst in hotel and then eat a late luch (usually big) w/ snacks from home in between and eat a smaller dinner later that evening. We are not big eaters so we usually do ok except when we do character meals. They are expensive but so worth it.

 

[crazymomof4]

We feel that by sticking to counter service we (family of 6) can get by on about $100/day for food/snacks. See the below where I posted on this subject:

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=418651

 

[DisneyFan09]

I've gotten my food budget figured to the penny (well almost) by using the menus on wdwig.com. It's very helpful!!