How many meals do you eat when in the parks?

[TSWJan78]

I am listening to Theresa talk about having to feed everyone every meal. When we are on the dining plan we usually only eat two meals and a snack and are always full. What about you.. do you eat three square meals a day?

 

[PeterPan09]

We utilize the concept of "dinch", and make our ADR's in the late afternoon so our largest meal is between 2-4. Add a decent breakfast and perhaps a snack later and we're good.

 

[sau418]

As with most of our vacations, we either pack or have breakfast foods delivered and then eat in the room. While out during the day we eat one big meal and one smaller meal, somedays our larger meal is lunch other days it is dinner.

 

[mickeywatch33]

We usually have a counter service breakfast, spilt a counter service lunch in the parks/snacks, and plan our table service at night and completely engorge ourselves!

 

[DSNY4ever]

As with most of our vacations, we either pack or have breakfast foods delivered and then eat in the room. While out during the day we eat one big meal and one smaller meal, somedays our larger meal is lunch other days it is dinner.

Agreed. We have never eaten three paid for meals...often we only do 1. We eat breakfast in the room with food we have brought and then we often pack lunch to the park. Sometimes we'll do 2 meals making one smaller (this is when we do a big sit down lunch, then we'll do a small counter service dinner) or if we've done a buffet for breakfast then we usually aren't hungry for a full meal again until dinner.

 

[mainegal]

Breakfast is snacks from home and soda in refillable drink mug.

No dining plan for me.
Lunch might be sit-down. Good food, lower price at mid-day.
Dinner, counter service.

 

[sshaw10060]

We usually have a snack for breakfast, counter service lunch, and eat dinner in a restaurant.

 

[calypso*a*go-go]

We utilize the concept of "dinch", and make our ADR's in the late afternoon so our largest meal is between 2-4. Add a decent breakfast and perhaps a snack later and we're good.

This is exactly what we do too! We never quite get over being on west coast time, so we tend to eat our breakfast about 10am, then have an early dinner, with a snack in the evening. For that reason, the regular dining plan has always been perfect for us. As a matter of fact, we just about always have some snack credits leftover that we use to buy "rations" for the long flight home to WA.

 

[dgthree]

We usually have breakfast in the room, pack some snacks (pretzels, nuts, laughing cow cheese wedges, baby carrots) & water for the day and do one sit-down meal, some days lunch, others dinner, or a new favorite, an assortment of apps (the steak skewers, crazy corn, and chips & salsa - yum) & drinks at Paradiso 37.

 

[Mrs D]

As with most of our vacations, we either pack or have breakfast foods delivered and then eat in the room. While out during the day we eat one big meal and one smaller meal, somedays our larger meal is lunch other days it is dinner.

This is our strategy as well. I bring granola bars, bagels, dry cereal sometimes instant oatmeal. We have a small breakfast in the room before heading to the park. We then do 1 CS and 1 TS most days. I really enjoy the break that sitting down for meal can give; eating out and trying new restaurants is a fun part of the vacation for me as well.

 

[exwdwcm]

we are not huge breakfast eaters, so we usually do breakfast in our room- granola bar etc or grab some oatmeal downstairs, something small.
Then we do lunch and dinner, depending on how hungry we are. We like to schedule one sit down meal a day if it makes sense, but with a toddler, we will be changing that plan going forward- more quick service now.

If we do have a sit down breakfast (which we do at least one per trip), then we make it a late breakfast and skip lunch.

There are so many great snacks available, that it really isn't necessary to eat 3 square meals a day.

My sister had one day where they planned to do 3 sit down meals. I don't know how they managed- they did Trail's End breakfast at 7am, Coral Reef lunch at noon, and Sci Fi at 7;30pm. plus the food at TSM 2.0 that night (it was that day they did this). It is a LOT of food. not sure I could handle it all. Even quick service, it is a lot of food sometimes, especially if on the dining plan getting all those desserts.

 

[TXYankee]

We usually have a snack for breakfast, counter service lunch, and eat dinner in a restaurant.

Me too!

 

[DSNY4ever]

My sister had one day where they planned to do 3 sit down meals. I don't know how they managed- they did Trail's End breakfast at 7am, Coral Reef lunch at noon, and Sci Fi at 7;30pm. plus the food at TSM 2.0 that night (it was that day they did this). It is a LOT of food. not sure I could handle it all. Even quick service, it is a lot of food sometimes, especially if on the dining plan getting all those desserts.

Yeah that is a lot of food, plus the sit down meals eat up a lot of time. We don't get over to WDW often so we want to maximize our time seeing the parks. 3 sit downs would eat up too much of our park time...and our budget- haha.

 

[wishspirit]

I am with the majority on breakfast- granola bars in the room.

However I am planning to do more sit down lunches this trip, we always go back to the room after lunch (and sometimes just before) anyway, so we thought we could eat big at lunch (when I am usually hungriest, and since I am the fussiest eater, especially on holiday, I get to decide!)

Then counter service for dinner, although we have 1 sit down booked for dinner. However we only tend to do a couple of sit down meals a holiday, we generally like the convenience of counter service.

 

[WaltD4Me]

We usually do one sit down a day. We like character breakfasts, so if we are doing one of those, that is really the big meal of the day, if no character breakfast, we have breakfast in the room and then a nice late lunch or early dinner. We definitely don't eat 3 squares, one "meal" is quick and light with some snack fillers here and there.

 

[jeanigor]

If I am alone, I have a tendency to forget to eat, until I am on the way back to the room.
When I am with others, I eat on their schedule. Usually CS for meals. Two at the most. A snack on the really long days.

 

[FireDancer]

For the most part I like the food in the resorts better then in the parks. There are a few exceptions (Tusker House, Sunshine Seasons, some WS locations) but I try not to eat any more than one TS meal per day on property. I eat small meals throughout the day normally and try to stick as close to my normal routine as possible.

I carry around a meal bar and some fruit or almonds and try to eat at the very end of the lunch window. I do try and have dinner at Boma every trip since it is my favorite restaurant on property and might have to add The Wave as a must do also.

The dinning just isn't a big part of the trip for me and since I usually go in the off season it isn't that hard to wing it a bit.

 

[newmouse2008]

I think this will be the hardest part of my challenge. With home so close it will be hard eating out everyday. I am thinking I need more input from everyone as to what to do.............

 

[jeanigor]

I think this will be the hardest part of my challenge. With home so close it will be hard eating out everyday. I am thinking I need more input from everyone as to what to do.............

Give Uncle Walter the house keys (to take care of the jungle on your lanai) and surrender to the power of the Mouse. But be sure to plan a bit first. =)

 

[klam_chowder]

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day! So we usually have counter service at the resort before we head out.

I plan one table service sit down either for lunch or dinner. This allows us to try new places every visit and is DH's rest break The other meal is a counter service meal.

Last time we did a buffet lunch (Tusker House) and was so full we just had a snack for dinner.

Apart from Dole Whips, I could do without any snacks but it's a requirement to keep DH going so he has at least 2/day.

Sounds like a lot I know but we usually share the counter service meal and have dessert.

Wow, can you tell I really enjoy me food?! Tho I don't obsess about that 180 day mark...really

cheers,