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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have one kid with anxiety and I'm usually a "push through" person, but I think it's kind of unfair of you to make him do that in a seeming loud, crowded, chaotic cafeteria with questionable tasting food. I think you should work on trying new foods at home when he's more in control of it. Since you're a single working mom, tell him that he needs to help pack his lunches if he doesn't want to bring anymore. Sunday mornings you make a list together, go shopping together, prep food together. You can freeze PBJs, sort crackers into individual sized bags. Cut veggies together. In the morning he's responsible for pulling his lunch together from the components you worked on over the weekend. This will hopefully empower him and make him feel in control of lunch, which might transfer to confidence at school.[/quote]

Some of this could work, but the school cafeteria is small, and only 2 classes eat there at a time (in fact it might be just 2 classes that eat there - other classes eat in their classrooms). It's a nut-free school, and I'm not sure he would eat nut free sandwiches. He eats very well at home, but not well anywhere else - restaurants are very difficult, friends houses are impossible, and family members homes are hard too. It's not the "trying new foods" that's the problem right now (he does that home weekly at least with minimal issues), it's anxiety surrounding food at school and anywhere but home. I guess I just don't think at this point that working on new foods at home will help him start eating food elsewhere because it's been a few years of working on food issues. [/quote]

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