My mind's gonna explode-Which should I pay out of pocket?

[SILLYANDI]

I know some of you enjoy a challenge so here's one...
We are using the dining plan- we will have 16 TS dining credits and I want to get every bang for my buck. There are 6 of us in our family, DH, Me, DD8, DD6, DS5 & DD2-2 kids are on grandparent's room reservation so they don't have DP. I know we should use as many credits as possible for adult meals and pay for kids (makes sense...)
Here are our ADR's/plans. Which table service meals would you use DP credits and which would you pay out of pocket in order to get your money's worth? My mind is melting trying to figure out all of the possibilities!

Day 1
Lunch-Sci Fi
Dinner-Downtown Disney (Raglan Road?) or counter service

Day 2
Cinderella's Breakfast
Dinner Fantasmic Package (Mama Melrose) or Kona Cafe

Day 3 AK
Dinner- Le Cellier With Candlelight Processional package

Day 4
Ohana Character Breakfast


Thank You Andrea
I posted in DDP section with no responses...

 

[notnothin]

Sorry, thought I posted in DDP section-I moved it there!

Need more info. Can you provide dining location(s)?

 

[SILLYANDI]

Need more info. Can you provide dining location(s)?

I thought I cut & pasted the post, but opviously didn't...I am so technologically challenged..

 

[NYDisGuy]

If the DD2 is still 2 when you go to Disney then you don't have to pay oop for her. And the rest of your children can order of the kids menu.

Ill go to Day 2 first because im not sure you decided yet on day 1. Does cinderellas breakfast mean Cinderellas royal table? If so these are 2 ts credits for each party. If you wanted to use ts credits there on yourself you would be -4 ts credits. I think its 24.99 for the kids there so if you wanted to use the kids credits there it would be another -4 ts credits which would leave you with 8. Then id use another 4 for Le Cellier which would leave you with 4 ts credits left for whatever you choose.

One of the two things i would be careful about in this situation is use the ts/cs credits for the people only in your party. Apparently you cant share your credits with people outside of your party so your grandparent's or the other two children cannot use them. And the second point is about the "pooling" of the credits of kids and adults. I believe you arent allowed to just use the credits for the adults and pay oop for the kids since the kids are on the ddp (you would be using their credits). I saw a couple of stories on the boards where waiters and managers had problems with this so just be careful about those.