You can feed your entire family for $60 a day at Disney? That’s a little difficult to believe.
In magic kingdom i like Columbia Harbor House. Kids meal is:
Chicken Breast Nuggets and Fish
served with Dannon® Danimals® Smoothie, GoGo squeeZ® Applesauce, and choice of small Lowfat Milk or small Dasani® Bottled Water
$7.69. You can sub fries for the applesauce and soda for the drink. Thats two kids and I'm at $16 bucks. Adult fish and shrimp is $12.50. Salad with shrimp for the wife is $12.00. We drink water. That is $40.
What typically happens is that we eat breakfast, the kids snack on apples and bananas and power bars in the AM. We eat a late lunch at a "$$" restaurant like harbor house to avoid the big lunch crowd. If the park closes at 7 which is typical in September we usually choose to ride rides rather than eat a second time in the park. We eat something after we leave.
A big part of it is I'm simply there for the rides and not there for the food. Another part is we are not big people. As Ive said, the wife is 120 and Im 175. The exception is Epcot where food is more of the experience and beer pushing $10 apiece is a necessity. They say there is beer in magic kingdom but Im not an alcoholic.
So a lot of days I spend $40 plus maybe a couple ice creams, occasionally I feed the kids again (another $16), but $40 is not an unusual spend inside the park.