How Much Do You Spend On Food?

[aimee11621]

WHO MUCH IS BEING SPENT ON FOOD?

BREAKFAST???

LUNCH ???

DINNER?????

 

[ilovediznee]

We are DVC members, so we eat b'fast in the room. I make grits, eggs, bacon and DH goes to the bakery at the Boardwalk and gets some pastries.

Lunch we do inside a park, sit down. We spend money on lunches and dinners at the nice restaurants at the parks because we love the food. Lunch runs about $80.00, but cheaper if we use a lunch voucher.

Dinner is the same. Usually at Epcot (France, England), etc.

Dianedisney

 

[enchantedpixiedust]

For the two of us it's about $1,100 budgeted for the week. This includes the Luau and a $250 bar tab allowance/$150 snack allowance and mugs at both POR & AKL, though. The majority of meals we're using vouchers except for dinner at Boma, Afternoon Tea, Bfast at Spoodles. It seems excessive I guess, but I just like to be overprepared.

 

[mmeb144]

I have budgeted about $30 breakfast, $40 lunch, $80 supper. That's for my family of 4, 2 adults, 1 DS 12, 1 DD 10. We usually eat breakfast at the food court at the resort, this time it will be POFQ. Lunch and supper at the parks.

Marie

 

[720L]

On our last trip I didn't really budget, but tried to not spend a lot. We spent over $400.00 on a family of 4! (kids are 3 and 5 so not big eaters) I almost died when I added this up! This is everything, our snacks, drinks in the park (we drank a lot since it was so hot) and meals. We were there 7 days. That's almost a months worth of groceries for us! We did 1 character breakfast and ate at Rainforest Cafe once and Rose and Crown once for a sit down dinner.

 

[Harambe]

Family of four (kids 11 & 9) - we budget $150.00 a day. Food court or counter service breakfast and lunch, nice dinner (or if we do a character breakfast, we'll do the counter service for dinner).

Usually 5 PS's for a week long trip.

 

[summerrluvv]

Originally posted by 720L
On our last trip I didn't really budget, but tried to not spend a lot. We spent over $400.00 on a family of 4! (kids are 3 and 5 so not big eaters) I almost died when I added this up! This is everything, our snacks, drinks in the park (we drank a lot since it was so hot) and meals. We were there 7 days. That's almost a months worth of groceries for us! We did 1 character breakfast and ate at Rainforest Cafe once and Rose and Crown once for a sit down dinner.

I think that's pretty reasonable for a family of four. That's about $58 a day, which isn't too bad for vacation.

 

[720L]

thanks that makes me feel a little better!

 

[bytheblood]

Originally posted by 720L
On our last trip I didn't really budget, but tried to not spend a lot. We spent over $400.00 on a family of 4! (kids are 3 and 5 so not big eaters) I almost died when I added this up! This is everything, our snacks, drinks in the park (we drank a lot since it was so hot) and meals. We were there 7 days. That's almost a months worth of groceries for us! We did 1 character breakfast and ate at Rainforest Cafe once and Rose and Crown once for a sit down dinner.

I think that is very reasonable. Your daily average is much better than we plan for. We have 2 adults and 1 child. We plan $90 a day for the three of us. This of course does not include any PS meals we have. We truly spend about $22 for breakfast, $24 for lunch and less than $30 for dinner, but we allow for $30 a meal. We are eat and go kind of people. This could change a person's budget. We grab a chicken sandwich, burger, hot dog...basically junk food. When we are at home, we eat healthy home cooked meals, but we eat like crap when we are vacationing.

 

[Dreamin' Disney]

Last time we were in Disneyworld, I think I was overprepared. I even brought a toaster in my luggage to help lessen the prices of breakfast meals. While we did opt for making some PS's for a character lunch or breakfast here and there, I recall it was quite inconvenient to go down to the lobby and find that bakery or cafe on the main floor of our hotel and buy some bagels, etc. And then what did I save?

This time we decided to splurge a little bit and booked a room on the concierge level, mainly because of the food offerings throughout the day. I know it will be extremely convenient to grab that continental breakfast in the morning, then each take a free bottle of water for the parks, come back from the parks to get a snack and then end off the day with some cookies and milk for the kids and perhaps a cocktail for the adults.

I still like to save, so I am happy to report that we got a AAA rate at 15% off the concierge rate, which brings us to the same rate as a waterview room at a deluxe hotel.

I didn't figure this out last time, but this time around, I feel that we will end up spending about the same, but it will be more convenient staying on the concierge level, without any running around looking for deals.

 

[stemikger]

I can't for the life of me remember how much spending money I brought on my last two trips. I don't remember feeling like I spent a lot of money though.

However, this trip is a special one because it's for my 40th birthday I want to really have enough money.

I am bring $2,500 for two adults and one child. This total also includes souviners (which we don't go crazy on).

The way I am going to do it is I am going to bring cereal bars because we are not big breakfast people, buy the mugs at the resort and have coffee and the bars for breakfast (except for one character breakfast).

For lunch we are going to either eat at the fancier places because they are cheaper at lunch time and for dinner eat counter service.

I think this should help keep the cost down. Also I bought the Brita fill and go bottles which will help with my water costs. I won't be at the mercy of those expensive bottles of water at the parks.

I love my beer so I will probably spend a little more on my bar tab. I am hoping to find a store in one of the resorts where I can purchase a couple of six packs for my room. I am not renting a car so I will not be leaving the resort.

The way I figure per day is $0 for breakfast - $60 for lunch and $30 for dinner - and $50 for snacks and cocktails and $30 for souviners.

 

[Hugpug]

This past May I budget 50.00 a day for myself. I travel solo. I had a couple of PS'S and it worked out fine. Never spent that much everyday. This also included the tips as well. Some meals in parks others at DD or Hotels. If I had a car I would have went outside WDW. I use Mug for coffee and Stopped at a grocery store on way to hotel and picked up water and pop. Since all Disney offers is Coke items which I am not crasy about. I picked up a 12 pack at store and snack items for in the room. This really helped cut the cost.

 

[Swan]

Since food is a big part of the trip we budget $1500.00 for 2-A & 2
Kids. That is for 10 days and eating at sit down places. I could do better if I tried.

 

[deanna2426]

Food at Disney is also a big part of our trip. We budget around $1,500 for 8 nights for a family of four (Me, DH, DS(5) and DS(22months).

We will eat a quick breakfast in concierge (except for one or two character breakfasts, counter service or quick sit-down lunch, sit-down dinner).

 

[Kimberle]

We've always spend around $100 per day. 2 adults, 1 small child.

This trip it will be less, probably only eat out for dinner, since we are staying concierge.

 

[Crazy Kanga]

I try to stay at $100 a day for my family of 4. This is done by eating cereal or pop tarts in the room for breakfast, and one sit down meal a day and one counter service meal. We also bring snacks to keep in the room, and may choose to snack for lunch when we take a pool break, then eat a big dinner. Whenever we can we share meals as well. Usually my DH and I will order a large burger or whatever at counter service and share(we are not big eaters) and do the same for the boys if we can get them to agree on what to order. At sit down meals I order a soup or salad and let everyone else order a meal(with my help) and everyone shares. Even doing this we usually have food left on the table at the end of the meal. I love good food as much as anyone else and every now and then love to splurge, but I really hate to drop a load of money on meals repeatedly on a trip. It gets depressing.

 

[bigbabyblues]

I'm budgeting $140 a day for our family, 2 adults, 2 kids ages 3 years and 15 months. The 15-mo old will be free at the buffets we have planned though.

 

[Lcm2108]

I really don't budget BUT, we spend about $75-100/day for 2 adults and 2 children (17 and 9).

We eat breakfast in the room with stuff I bring (like pop tart, little cereal boxes, cookies, etc.). Our main meal is lunch---cheaper than dinner and we usually do this just before going back to our room for swim/rest. For dinner, we do counter service or food court. We bring our own water bottle to park or just drink out the fountains. We do get snack sometime---like Dole Whips, Turkey legs, Mickey Bars, Snowballs.

Without purchasing the tickets, I can do WDW for us 4 staying 7 nights at a Value Resort for under $1000. When we have AP's, it's easier to convince DH to go as it doesn't cost a small fortune!

Lisa

 

[PoohBear]

We spend about $200 per day for a family of 4.
That's for 2 adults and 2 kids (7 & 10).

We have breakfast & dinner at a restaurant and counter service if we eat lunch but most of the time we just get popcorn or fries to stretch until dinner.

I do bring snacks for the room and the parks. We always get refillable mugs, too.

We are not big eaters either. I feel sorry for larger families. I know there are less expensive ways than a restaurant but DH and I need the time out to regroup or we'll be worthless

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by 720L
On our last trip I didn't really budget, but tried to not spend a lot. We spent over $400.00 on a family of 4! (kids are 3 and 5 so not big eaters) I almost died when I added this up! This is everything, our snacks, drinks in the park (we drank a lot since it was so hot) and meals. We were there 7 days. That's almost a months worth of groceries for us! We did 1 character breakfast and ate at Rainforest Cafe once and Rose and Crown once for a sit down dinner.

Are you saying it only cost $400 for the entire 7 days? I realize that may be an entire month of groceries but that is CHEAP for eating out! We are two adults and one picky 5 y/o. We spend at least $125 a day on food. We always do one nice meal a day, a sit down breakfast, and then a counter type lunch. We spent $1500 on food on our last 10 day trip.