Just got back and here's how NOT DOING the
DDP for us this year worked out.
The DDP Quick Service AND paying for breakfast out of pocket would have cost us $4275. (14 nights / 5 adults)
We spent a TOTAL of $2729.50 on food.
This included buying 5 of the rapid fill mugs, still allowing everyone 2 snacks per day, and few table service meals.
We did share a few quick service meals. I didn't keep up with how many meals were shared, but not a huge amount. We didn't really share in effort to save the money, we shared more to avoid throwing so much food out. Still had too much food sometimes.
Did not buy any Alcohol.
The only thing we did go without that the DDP would have allowed for, was Cokes when we didn't have our mugs. We bought Cokes a few times, but mostly drank water when we didn't have our mugs.
We also had a lunch at Be Our Guest was refunded, so that would have been another $100 or so.
We also spent 2 days at Universal Studios and this total does NOT include what we spent outside of Disney.