HARRISBURG, S.D. – Cookie sales in several South Dakota lunch rooms are down significantly, thanks to federal nutrition restrictions on school foods championed by first lady Michelle Obama.

“Last year, I was just getting as many as I could,” Caleb Schneider, a 16-year-old attending Harrisburg High School, told the Associated Press. “They’re definitely a lot worse than last year, but sometimes I still get them, because who doesn’t like cookies, right?”

Schneider is far from the only student to turn his nose up at his school’s latest generation of cookies, which now must comply with federal restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium and whole grains. The new Smart Snack rules implemented in schools across the country this year are the latest federal regulations to come out of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010.

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This year’s nutrition restrictions apply to a la carte sales and snacks offered to students, and limits the foods to 200 calories and 230 mg of sodium. Snack foods must also be whole-grain rich.

The rules resulted in a massive cookie sales drop in Harrisburg lunchrooms, which is down from about 34,308 cookies sold this time last year to about 18,000 cookies this year. In dollars, the sales slump equates to about $12,195 in lost revenue.

Overall, Harrisburg’s a la carte sales are down about $4,000, despite a 9 percent enrollment increase, the AP reports.

“We’re down, but not as down as I thought,” Chris Beach, food service supervisor for the district, told the news service.

Other North Dakota school districts are seeing similar sales slumps.

The Brandon Valley School District is making its cookies smaller to meet the federal regulations, and sales have plummeted from about 600 cookies a day to 150 this year.

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Brandon Valley’s nutrition director Gay Anderson said the cookies used to be “a huge hit with the students” but doesn’t “want to focus lots on the cookie sales, because we’re about feeding the kids and feeding them right.”

Regardless of intentions, the new federal lunch and snack regulations have convinced more than 1 million students to drop out of the National School Lunch Program. Hundreds of school districts have done the same, and waived federal lunch subsidies, to serve students foods they’ll actually eat.

The lunch regulations also come with a mandate that students take a fruit or vegetable, whether they like it or not, which has created more than $1 billion in food waste annually.

That’s a reality that’s not lost on Beach, who noted that students are finding ways around the healthy snack rules, especially when cookies are involved.

“If they aren’t purchasing them in the school, they’re going to purchase them in a convenient store and bring them in,” he told the AP.

Ironically, as Michelle Obama and supporters of her “healthy” school food restrictions work to combat childhood obesity through bureaucracy, the Girl Scouts of America are amping up their cookie sales game by offering sales online in 2015.

Beginning Friday, customers can order cookies online though personalized websites and have the treats shipped directly to their home, the Charleston Daily Mail reports.

This year’s cookies also include two new gluten-free varieties – Toffee-tastic and Rah-Rah Raisin.