Overcome a Fear of Buying Food from Your School Cafeteria

Do you always hear about how bad the school lunches are, and you're scared to buy one? Well, overcoming your fear of your school's lunch food may be difficult. However, by following the steps below, you may be able to resolve your fear and learn to like the school lunch lady more than ever.

Steps

 * 1) Trade your lunch with others. If your problem is the food, bring a home packed lunch with something your friends might like to trade for their bought lunches.
 * 2) Choose an item and offer to trade it with your friend.
 * 3) Continue the trade it the food's good. If you like their (the school's) food, continue to trade until you have acquired a wide range of their food.
 * 4) Begin buying lunch. Once you have tried almost everything your school offers, if you enjoyed it, begin buying lunch. If not, keep packing.
 * 5) If your problem is BUYING the food, just walk up to the lunch line purposefully, and wait. Really, nobody watches who is in the line, they just wait to see when it gets short.
 * 6) Don't let any one get ahead of you .If someone keeps cutting ahead of you, tap them on the shoulder and say loudly and clearly, "I believe I was ahead of you in this line, I have been waiting longer and am very hungry. The end of the line is back there/behind me please." If that doesn't work, call the matter to the attention of a lunch monitor or teacher who is in the area.

Tips

 * You can go for a whole lunch at a time, but it is advised that you first try only some of their food, like a salad.
 * Don't give up with the first taste!
 * Try the same food on multiple days too, such as if you had chicken on Monday, try it again next time they have it. Recipes change!
 * School lunches are notoriously bad. Do not feel obligated to buy if you do not like the food.

Warnings

 * Do not spit out the food.
 * Do not choke.
 * Do not cause fights if someone cuts ahead of you.

Related Tips and Steps

 * How to Stop Your Child from Wanting School Lunch