How much do you budget for food????

[lindsroc]

We are a family of 4, 2 adults and 2 kids...and just looking at our ADR's wondering how much is the average that other families allocate for food. We are not on any dining plan. We plan on doing a table service meal twice a day on most days, there are 1 or 2 where we only have 1 rez but may still end up doing a TS at DTD. We have only 2 character meals... Tusker House breakfast and Chef Mickeys breakfast. Right now, we are guessing we will spend on average $225 a day for meals/snacks. Does this seem about right? Too much, not enough? We've never really paid much attention to how much we spent on food.

 

[Eastern]

Seems about right to me. I ballpark $50pp per day for adults (with no signatures.)

 

[J3nn78]

Why no dining plan? Are you off site? Because the deluxe dining plan would cost you less per day (assuming your kids are under 10?) and gives you 3 meals a day-counter or table service-not to mention your snacks

 

[Ava]

Check out the menus on allears.net. They have menus with prices for all of the restaurants.

I'm budgeting $800 for our party of 2 adults and a 2-year-old, for 6 full days & 2 travel days. I used the menus on All Ears to see how much we'd likely spend at the TS's we have planned - we're only doing 4 & 2 are buffets so that's a set price. Then I budgeted $30 for each CS. And rounded up the total.

 

[amaris75]

don't forget to add in tips...........

 

[lindsroc]

Why no dining plan? Are you off site? Because the deluxe dining plan would cost you less per day (assuming your kids are under 10?) and gives you 3 meals a day-counter or table service-not to mention your snacks

No dining plan, we're on a room discount at the Poly.

 

[nolanboys]

You can still add on a dining plan even with the other discount - you just have to pay Disney's price for it. If you have the 2 character meals and other TS ADR's, it is probably worth it for you to add it to your reservation.

 

[pooh2001]

Not sure if our plan works for you.
4 adults, DH. DW, DS age 19 and DD age 16 = $200 per day -
but we normally have money to bring back per day.

Lunch or Dinner CS = $40 for our family
Lunch TS = about $100 for our family
Dinner TS = $140 for our family

So we are $140 or $180 per day - but allow $200 per day for a change of plan and a splurge


Our Plan:
We do breakfast in our room - so very little cost, maybe $10 per day.
We do get those refillable mugs to use.
We skip dessert most of the time too, unless it comes with the meal.

Then we eat a TS lunch (less expensive) most of the time and a CS dinner.

We do vary by doing a CP late breakfast (counts as lunch) on an early entry MK morning. we have done a TS dinner if we are staying for a late night evening extra hour, such as 50 PT at DHS - we eat OPP so we can pick less expensive items- and again no dessert.

Other great OOP places - lunch at CP in MK, dinner at H&V in DHS.
Even GF 1900 Park Faire for TS dinner - worth the money and a great place to see Cindy & the Prince for less than the Castle