More recently I have been aiming segments of my lucid time towards eating and drinking. What I have found is that it can be quite delicious. However, I can't seem to get the notion of bugs in my dream food out of my mind when I am attempting to eat or drink in a dream, and this translates into an expectation of their presence in what I am consuming.

The reason this is happening to me is clearly because of my waking fear or phobia of keeping my food clean. I've been like this for as long as I can remember.

The seemingly obvious resolution to this predicament would be to come to terms with the fact that the insects in my food are "not real", so I shouldn't worry about it and continue enjoying dream food and drink. But the problem is that the bugs are as real as the food.

Does anyone else experience this? How can I overcome this and be able to fully enjoy dream food?