We were on the dining plan for our 3rd. trip to Disney in Oct. 2006 and had a food-extravaganza with the free dining deal. In previous trips, we only splurged on TS a couple of times during the whole vacation, ate breakfast at our room, packed snacks for the parks, and shared counter service meals. The free DDP certainly worked it's marketing magic on us -- we will be buying the plan when we go back in Oct. 2008, crummy changes and all.