those staying in villas...how many breakfast/meals out and in?!

[Palm trees]

Our circumstances are slightly different to most people's in that our youngest child (aged 7) can only eat pureed food. We have to prep meals and then heat and take out in a flask if we're going to be out. We also chill yoghurts/soft desserts and take out in another flask. Therefore we ate breakfast in the villa, took his lunch out so we could eat in a restaurant (we never head out early so not kept in a flask for that long) and return to the villa for our evening meal. We had no issue with any restaurants in relation to taking our child's food with us, when we explained the reason. Some evening meals were home cooked (or pre-cooked supermarket chicken/ready prep'd salads etc). On other evenings we got takeaways from nearby restaurants. It helped to manage costs as well. We usually cook from scratch at home but, like most people, want a break from it on holiday. For our youngest (who has everything cooked from scratch at home ) we did cheat a little and bought some ready made stuff to puree where we could... figuring if we can eat chips for two weeks he would enjoy a bit of "fast food" too!

[bigbear]

We eat breakfast in the villa on rope drop mornings (to save time) and have brunch at a diner on our later start mornings. Other than a Flippers pizza delivery on the first night, we normally eat all other meals out.

[Elmhurst 5]

For us, we have a normal breakfast in the Villa everyday, sometimes cooked or not. I suppose we have only 1 or 2 breakfasts out, purely for the novelty of it, but depends on what we are doing for the day.

This year, we wont be eating out (dinner) so much and plan to eat in, most nights. We have a few Disney restaurants we want to eat in on some Park days, otherwise snacks (burger etc). We also intend to try and take a packed lunch to the parks, it will be trial and error! cos of carting it around.
At the water parks, we always take a picnic.

[Maryj]

We tend to eat in most mornings, but do enjoy a few breakfasts out over the three weeks. We take a picnic on a parks day and usually have lunch out on non park days. We do a mixture of eating out and simple meals in the villa.
We do have a list of restaurants we like to go to and we really enjoy them. We also enjoy evenings in the villa eating by the pool.
It's partly down to cost, but I don't think we would want all our meals out over a three week period.

[Nicki G]

We are planning 2-3 breakfasts out and 4-5 evening meals. Lunches will generally be eaten in villa or taken with us. I like the odd meal out but to be honest I'm as happy preparing something myself to save money for other things

[Guest]

Originally Posted by Mental Minnie

We are not staying in a villa this time but we did when the kids were small.
We had breakfast in the villa every morning. Mostly cereal and fruit. We always packed to take out with us frozen water, frozen juice pouches, fruit, crisps and some cookies. We only ever had one meal out a day either lunch or dinner.(mostly dinner) We usually had our snack bag for lunch and maybe bought a couple of burgers or fries to share. On the nights we had BBQ's at the villa, then we had lunch out, again maybe 2 between the 4 of us, it is plenty with some snacks you take with you. Loads of frozen water or frozen juice boxes. It's the drinks that most of your money goes on.

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This is exactly what we do.

[RM2016]

When we stay in a Villa we tend to eat breakfast in. Lunch and dinner are always out.

[amarooney]

We have most breakfasts in the villa, will have one character breakfast and a couple of visits to the likes of Bob Evans or Dennys. Mainly eat out on the way back during the evening but do have the odd takeaway. We never cook.