ST. CHARLES, Ill. – After a 40 percent plunge in lunch sales, the St. Charles, Illinois school district has had it with Michelle Obama’s “healthy” lunch rules.

The D-303 district west of Chicago is making moves to opt St. Charles East and North high schools out of the National School Lunch Program, which would provide “more flexibility in portion sizes and the types of food offered at the high schools,” according to Seth Chapman, the district’s assistant superintendent of business services.

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The Kane County Chronicle reports the district projects it will sell a total of 401,629 a la carte meals by the end of the 2014-15 school year, a 40 percent decrease from the more than 679,800 purchases last school year.

“It’s really the cut of fat and salt. Kids really liked macaroni and cheese, and well, you don’t see macaroni and cheese anymore,” Superintendent Don Schlomann tells the Chicago Tribune.

“In the past, a favorite lunch has been turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy, but they can’t have that anymore with the salt count.”

School administrators are recommending the school board approve the opt out.

The district anticipates losing about $500,000 in federal funds, but would make them up with increased sales and a “‘guaranteed’ contract that would ensure the district breaks even and possibly receives a surplus generated by rebates,” the paper reports.

Free and reduced-price meals would still be provided to high school students.

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Students in the Amarillo, Texas district may be wishing their school administrators would be making a similar move, but so far, they’re not.

But it’s not for a lack of students making the case.

“The choices have gotten healthier and that also means taste has gone down,” 7th grader Edwin Perez tells KAMR.

“Most school lunches are not appetizing. They have no flavor and what flavor they do have is usually a bad flavor.”

The news station reports “most” students they spoke with don’t eat the “healthier” lunches.

“They told us they don’t eat, or just pack their own lunches,” according to NBC 4.

“I pack my own lunch, I don’t like to eat school food. It’ll always make my stomach hurt sometimes and sometimes it’s not even like good quality food,” says 6th grader Joseph Carrillo says.

The strict federal regulations have caused an increase in processed, pre-packaged foods with content labels clearly present.

Tessa Pittman’s recent lunch is evidence of that:

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act – the law First Lady Michelle Obama championed to change school lunches – expires in September.