Stop Your Child from Wanting School Lunch

Most kids don't want to pack their own lunch for school, and you don't want them to buy from the school cafeteria because it can be costly, and you don't know exactly what will be served. Here are some tips to get your child to bring a sack lunch to school, so you know that your child will have a healthy and tasty mid-day meal.

Steps

 * 1) Make lunch for the child to take to school every morning. Try to include things they like to eat and drink.
 * 2)  Don't give the child any money for lunch or snacks while at school.  Most younger children don't have access to money unless it is given to them by their parents.
 * 3)  Show your child how to make his or her own lunch in the morning.  Start by having them help you as you make it for them and soon they will be able to do it by themselves.
 * 4)  If you live close to the school, tell them they can walk home, or pick them up and take them home for a good lunch.
 * 5)  Let them buy a cool lunch box at the store.  This will encourage them to bring lunch in their cool new lunch box.

Tips

 * Letting them buy lunch once a month or occasionally won't hurt. Let them know that it is a treat and won't be allowed regularly.
 * Cafeteria lunches are not always that appetizing. If you make a sack lunch that tastes better than the school lunch they will want sack lunches more often.
 * If the cost or wondering what they really spend their lunch money on is worrying you, apply for reduced or free lunch if your district has it. With reduced, you'll give your child about 50 cents daily, and with free, it's just that; free.
 * Bring your child grocery shopping with you, and let him or her choose different lunch foods. You will have final say on what is all right and what isn't, of course, but, it will help ensure that the food is something that your child likes to eat.  That will make your child more likely to eat what is in his or her lunchbox.