<p>Are the $1400 for dine in dollars and $300 bevo enough for the year, realistically? i know you can transfer $ into dine in dollars, but can you transfer $ from your bank to bevo?</p>
<p>You can add bevo bucks online at any time. We had a 10 meal plan a week. My d lived in Towers. I think she used about 750 bevo bucks over the entire year. She was not fond of the dorm food, was not near her dorm for lunch, and ate on the drag often for lunch.
I am sure you can get by on less. You will need more than the 300 they give you.</p>
<p>It all depends on where your child eats. My ds was in Carothers last year, so he ate most of his meals at Kinsolving. The all you care to eat dining at Kinsolving and Jester is by far the most economical option, averaging about $4 per meal. He did not eat out as much as I thought he would, but that was his choice. The Bevo bucks go fast, because they can be used alot of places. I think we added $200-300 to his Bevo bucks for the second semester and he ended up with about $100 left over in dining dollars and $75 in Bevo bucks. He will be in the honors quad again this year, but I will be surprised if he does not eat out more this year!</p>
<p>I think I posted in another thread about this. As far as dine in dollars go:</p>
<p>Last year we got 1300 dine in dollars. I ate on campus for lunch M-F, and dinner M-Th. I ate at the all you can eat places (the cheapest option, actually) and I ran out in March and needed about $300 more dine in dollars to last me until the end of the year. This year I am expecting the same thing to happen.</p>
<p>My Bevo Bucks I didn’t really consider worth refilling. I used them when going to restaurants initially, since the money had already been “paid” to the school and might as well get used up. However, after that I just used a credit card when I went out to eat. Be sure to save some Bevo Bucks for things like laundry and vending machines though, if you don’t carry about quarters or other change.</p>
<p>Why does UT not cover the expenses for 3 meals a day? If you live in the dorm that is how it should be. So really the meals aren’t encluded with the dorm?</p>
<p>Better than a college that forces a certain number of meals a week on you at $7-10 each. You can always add money.</p>
<p>I guess that is true. I am really going to have to learn to budget. Never had to do that much.</p>
<p>I actually ended being one of those people who had $100+ dine-in dollars at the end of the school year…but I had a varied schedule of eating, and I made lots of sandwiches/cereal.</p>
<p>I only ate out on the weekends as well, and I tried to eat only at J2 or Kinsolving when I had to use DID. I did run out of Bevo bucks after the first semester.</p>
<p>How is the food at the all you can eat places, health-wise?</p>
<p>I mainly only eat whole wheat breads, vegetables and some kind of meat for a meal. That’s not that hard to find at these places right?</p>
<p>plain and simple no. the amount of money they give you for food was not enough to last me the whole year. Maybe it is if you eat at j2 or kinsolving everyday for most of your meals but i personally hateddd the food at j2. me and my friends would only eat there when we literally had no dine in dollars because we blew through them at jcl and cypress and were too scared to call our parents and keep asking for refills. I dont even know how many times my parents *****ed at me for having to refill my account so much. Lesson learned try and budget your dine in dollars from the beginning. lockdown22- kinsolving actually had some good food and to me seemed cleaner than j2. Both of the all you can eat places pretty much contain the foods you mentioned also</p>
<p>The food served at J2 and Kinsolving should be the same, but Kins has got so much better lighting, layout and food presentation. Sometimes food looks very scary at J2 because of its look of out the 70s.</p>
<p>You will be able to get the whole wheat bread and vegetables. The meat will be of questionable origin sometimes when it’s absolutely smothered in a sauce, but most of the time it’s okay. There’s a salad bar as well, and a “burger grill” consisting of cooked burgers assembled in front of you. Oh there is also a cereal bar, waffle iron and sandwich/wrap line as well.</p>
<p>You can check out weekly menus here: [This</a> Week’s Menus](<a href=“http://129.116.62.55/foodpro/]This”>http://129.116.62.55/foodpro/). Click the dropdown on the left.</p>
<p>Aw, no menu available for Kinsolving. Hopefully the food there is tolerable, though, because my parents have pretty much already told me that I’m on my own after I run out of Dine-in-Dollars 
Would you totally run out of money if you ate at somewhere like Cypress Bend or Littlefield Patio Cafe, say, one or two meals a week?</p>
<p>J2 and Kinsolving are good but you will definitely want to eat somewhere else a couple of times a week, just for your sanity. Even the most healthy food, varied menu cafeterias get tiring after a few months.</p>
<p>“Would you totally run out of money if you ate at somewhere like Cypress Bend or Littlefield Patio Cafe, say, one or two meals a week?”</p>
<p>You would totally run out of money even if you didn’t eat there once or twice a week. It costs more.</p>
<p>Er… you lost me Why Two Kay…buriedalie would run out of money as opposed to eating at J2 or kins?</p>
<p>J2 and Kins are the cheapest options on campus. If you eat anywhere else (JCL, Cyprus, etc) it costs MORE.</p>
<p>J2 and Kins are like $3.80 for lunch and $4.28 for dinner with your dine in dollars. The average meal at Cyprus (burger, fries, and regular drink) is like $5.80, and that’s if you really won’t still be hungry and need more to eat, and of course no free refills.</p>
<p>They give you the correct number of dine in dollars to eat at J2/Kins for the majority of your meals, and for the rest you eat off campus using regular cash/credit card. They claim to give you the “average number of Dine in dollars used by the previous year’s students” but the problem is there are so many people who live on campus who barely even use HALF their dine in dollars, they eat off campus for literally every meal.</p>
<p>That’s stuff that I already know. I still don’t get what you meant by this:
But that’s irrelevant to me. Don’t live on campus. Meh.</p>
<p>That amount doesn’t even cover 2 meals a day for 6 days a weed for the 9 months they charge for dorm. Two meals a day for only 6 days would be more then 1700.00. (Dine in dollars + Bevo bucks) But I guess it is better then then over charging. That amount for the places you mentioned are cheap prices. Are there any student discounts at any of the larger restaurants? Like Chili’s?</p>
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<p>What I meant is that even if you didn’t eat at Cyprus/JCL once a week, and just ate at J2/kins, you would still run out of money.</p>
<p>Ah, now i’ve got it. Forgive me, I’m running on 4 hours of sleep.</p>