I'm always curious about what people who have two TS meals a day and spend less than the cost of the Dining plan on eat. I believe them, really, but I couldn't do it.
We did not do the Dining Plan last trip, because Disney will not sell it to you without park tickets as part of the package and we had our tickets already through their education program. So we stayed off property and paid out of pocket with a combo of cash and pre-paid gift cards. Bad mistake. We spent a lot of that trip grumping at each other because we were all hungry and cranky and wanted to do eating we had not budgeted for.
We are big eaters anyway and DS is still growing, but for some reason we are ravenous when we hit the parks. The DxDP is just never in my budget, but I'm sure we could do it justice. The regular dining plan is not quite enough, but it takes a lot of the sting out of Disney eating. We've never not used more than the value of the plan, and I am shocked by how quickly Disney restaurant bills add up.
I drink wine or beer with many meals, but the beverage credit can be used for coffee, which both DS and I like with dessert, or sparkling water, which we also both like and I'll drink along with my wine. These are all usually skips if we have to pay for them, but we enjoy having them.
I don't necessarily want the most expensive thing on the menu every time, but it's probably going to be on the more costly half, and eating dessert is not a hardship. The only place I've ever had trouble finishing is WPE, which isn't technically a TS anyway, but is a fairly regular stop for us on the dining plan.
We once had the CS plan when it had two snacks and we didn't eat all of them, so we wound up getting things to eat in the car on the way back to Pennsylvania. They did not go to waste.
We'll sometimes split 2CS meals between the three of us and get an extra dessert with a snack credit to make it go a little farther.
Of course I'll never top '07 when we paid 39.99 each for the DP and the dinner bill for the three of us came to $160. I actually felt guilty.