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For our family, one of the highlights of our Disney World vacations is eating! With all of the great restaurant choices (most of which are good quality), and the fun of trying new foods, we have found that we truly love to eat at Disney World. However, it can become very expensive, so out of necessity, we have found several ways to save money on food, and yet still enjoy the many mouth-watering options the Walt Disney World offers. So let’s take a look at five easy ways to reduce your Disney food budget and make it possible to actually have an affordable Disney vacation.

1. Think about having some meals in your room. This is very easy to do if you are staying in a vacation home, villa, condo, or hotel suite, as you will have use of a kitchen. But even in a standard hotel room you can request a mini-frig if there is not already one, where you can store milk, juice, and sandwich items.

2. You can save quite a bit of money by bringing your own snacks, juice, water etc.

3. Consider sharing meals, especially if you have little ones who don’t eat much. Disney portions are usually quite large and sharingwhether between 2 kids, or an adult and childwill not leave anyone hungry.

4. You can eat off-site and save money as well. If you are staying off-Disney property, ask at your hotel for local restaurant discount coupons or promotions. Or try looking for online coupons/promotions through local Florida/Orlando websites. You may even find it to be cost-effective to buy a local Entertainment Book for restaurant coupons.

5. Finally, we are big fans of the Disney Dining Plan. The way the plan works, if you are staying on Disney property, you have the ability to choose from several levels of the Dining Plan, basically pre-paying for nearly all of your meals. And with several choices (providing snack, counter service, or in some plans, table service meals) there is an option for nearly any budget. For our family, who like table service meals each night, we choose the Plus Disney Dining Plan and get one snack credit, one counter meal (entree, drink, and dessert), and one table service meal (entree, drink, and dessert) per person, per day. For us, the snacks generally work well most days for breakfast, and the others will be used for lunch and dinner each day. It is frankly more food per person than we can usually eat, and so we often take our dessert with us since we are so full! For this level, the cost per day for our family of 3 is less than we would have paid just for dinner, so we are saving quite a bit of money using the Disney Dining Plan.

Of course, with all that food we are eating, we are fortunately doing a LOT of walking at all the parks to exercise it off! Saving money on food has been a great way to help us plan a magical, affordable Disney vacation each year!

Nancy Bobby has been visiting Disney World for over ten years. Her top money saving guide for a Disney vacation has been the Ultimate Disney World Savings Guide. Learn how how to have your own affordable Disney vacation and get her free Disney World planning bonus at her blog www.theaffordablemouse.com

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