How much do you spend a day on food/drink?

[kizzle]

How much do you allow/spend a day?

Breakfast/lunch/dinner etc

Per person or how much with family or couple?

 

[Woodview]

Where ? On Site . Or Off Site ...... Villa away from Parks ? Hotel in ???

More Info needed

 

[networkpro]

It would depend on your dietary needs as well as they types and times you typically eat.

We are not typical.

My wife and I, Disney veterans of many decades, tend to eat only table service for lunch and supper (our usual dinner largest meal of the day) and almost zero snacks. Breakfast is usually only a coffee/milk and fruit or pastry. We have drinks with meals so usually $~300 a day.

 

[Elise79]

Best bet is look at some menus online to get a feel for the prices you will be paying.

We tend to have either a large breakfast and TS dinner or a small breakfast in the room, CS lunch and then TS dinner.

We have a mix of on site and off site meals too.

IHOP for breakfast is around $30-35 including tip for 2A, 1C. But our bill at Yachtsman Steakhouse was $200 including tip. CS meals in Disney average around $30 for the 3 of us but we share a large drink and don't always have a full meal each. If we had a meal and drink each it would be nearer $40.

 

[Westcoastwild]

I ate two meals a day. I did table service because I really needed the time out of the sun. Easily $30 per meal. Add in a drink or snack in the mid afternoon or evening- probably $70/day.

But I don't tend to eat junk food- I usually get the mid price menu items. And I have a relatively small appetite- if you order appetizers or desserts, you would spend 20 or more on top of that. I don't do buffets- you could probably spend twice that if you did buffets with your family.

Only two exceptions to the above:hoop de Doo and Jikos. Both around 60, I think. No, I lie, Jikos was probably 80 with the wine.

 

[disneyholic family]

i've tried to make this calculation without much success. And that's after 50+ visits.
it's very variable depending who's on the trip.
when it was just me, i spent very little...i had very little inside the parks, had my main meal at sweet tomatoes (yum)....
When it's with DH, DD, DS - it was a lot more...(meals onsite, grocery runs for snacks and breakfast fixins, snacks through the day in the park, etc etc)
now that it will be with DH, DD, DS and spouses and kids, heaven only knows....the skies the limit i fear.

bottom line, it's hard to calculate...
but the suggestion by a previous poster about going into menus and trying to figure out what you would order is a good one..

 

[zavandor]

There is almost no upper limit on how much you can spend, with Victoria & Albert dinner costing $180+ per person (and worth every penny). But you can also go quite cheap if you get a grocery delivery and eat a light breakfast in the room and go for good value meals onsite or venture off site (but you'd need a car). It's almost the opposite: figure out your budget and then allocate it.

 

[General Panic]

My 2 brothers and i who go yearly and are all in our 50's , in Disney we just eat Quick Service with a very occasinal TS meal. We budget $7 a day for a brekkie in the hotel on site , $20 , usually less for QS lunch , 2 snack breaks (Call them Coke breaks for us) at $7 in total and at the end of the day either something back at the hotel or another QS in park at approx $15. So for us no more than $50pp.

As others say it really does depend on your food preferences and costs can soar.....

 

[california37]

We generally budget $170 per day to include all drinks and food and buying things like the occasional toy or t-shirt. We have kept the same amount regardless of if it was just the two of us or now we have a family of 4. Anything we don't spend we roll into the next day. This means we have a definite budget for our overall hols. We usually have a mixture of cs and ts meals booked in our plan. Like this year we had lunch at bog, breakfast at the CP, dinner at Hollywood and vine.. And an adult evening out at the yachtsman. Haven't done V&A for ages as the kiddos are so small. If we have anything left spend wise at the end of the hols it goes into a treat kitty for the next holiday!!