How much money to spend on food?

[hsembrick]

Ok, this is not our first trip to Disney by any means. But, this is my first trip taking my two girls (9-an eater and 5-picky at times) by myself. I have always done the dining plan but this time that is not an option since we are sharing a 2 bedroom villa with my folks, my brother and sister in law and their son (3 yrs). Since I am the only one who is wanting the dining plan (honestly, it would probably only save me money since we are only doing 1 sit down meal this time) now I have to figure out how much money per day I will need for food.

Does anyone have a good method to planning your food money? We will be arriving on a Sunday and checking out on a Saturday. We will be ordering from garden grocer so drinks and snacksfor the room and breakfast stuff will be taken care of. We are eating breakfast one morning at Chef Mickeys and that is the only plan we really have this time. Taking it easy and just doing what we want!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Darcy03231]

Well, since you're staying off-site you wouldn't have been able to buy the dining plan anyway.

Generally, I've found counter service meals run about $8-$10/pp for adults. I think the children's meals run about $6-$8. I found that when it was me, my mom and my niece (11) last year we could get two adult counter service meals and it was plenty of food for the three of us. Of course we did get some snacks during the day too, which averaged another $5/pp per day.

 

[hsembrick]

Thanks, and that's a great point about sharing! We hardly ever finish all the food anyway.

BTW- We are staying at Animal Kindgon Lodge Villas