SHERIDAN, Wyo. – Officials in Wyoming’s smallest school district decided to ditch the National School Lunch Program and its long list of nutrition regulations to cut down on wasted food and administrative time tied to the federal requirements.

According to the Sheridan Press:

Superintendent Chares Auzqui said the move will help cut down on food waste, increase participation in the school lunch program by making meals that are more appealing to students and free up administrative time, since the federal program required significant tracking, compliance and other paperwork.

The district will lose food-related federal money but Business Manager Greg Rohrer hopes that by cutting down on staff time needed to facilitate the federal program, a new lunch program would be cost-effective.

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In other words, officials in Sheridan County School District 3 realize that the money wasted trying to comply with the federal regulations outweighs subsidies the school receives from the government for the National School Lunch Program.

Sheridan schools are among hundreds that have dropped out of the federal program since tightened restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium, grain content, and other aspects of school lunches were imposed by the federal government at the urging of first lady Michelle Obama in 2012.

The regulations have resulted in an increase of more than $1 billion in school food waste annually, and convinced well over 1 million students to drop out of the National School Lunch Program. The situation cut deeply into school food sales, forcing officials to choose between government subsidies from the unpopular federal program and salvaging local sales by serving students lunches they will actually eat.

The success of other Wyoming districts with dropping out of the National School Lunch Program helped convince officials in Sheridan it was the right thing to do, according to the Press.

EAGnews reported on Sheridan County School District 1’s decision to drop out of the National School Lunch Program in 2014, about the same time at least a half dozen other Wyoming districts did the same.

District One business manager Jeremy Smith told Wyoming Public Media at the time that the complaints from students about food prepared under Michelle Obama’s rules was not enough, and not very tasty.

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“Universally, it was, ‘We are starving. We are hungry. This isn’t enough food for us,’” he said. “But we couldn’t blame them, because I looked at that lunch and said, ‘I wouldn’t eat it either.’”

Smith said that ditching the federal regulations allowed the district to serve bigger portions and healthy, but more popular, offerings. Despite a price increase to help cover the locally sourced produce and beef the district incorporated into the program, sales increased by 20 percent, he said.

Other districts across the country that have ditched the federal lunch program have cited a litany of reasons for the decision, including administrative time spent tracking nutrition standards, significant decrease in food sales, overly small portion sizes, massive waste tied to a requirement all student must take a fruit or vegetable, student complaints, parent complaints, concerns about low-calorie substitutes, concerns about an over-reliance on processed food, restrictions on school bake sales and other fundraising, and others, EAGnews reports.

Students, meanwhile, are revolting by posting pictures of their disgusting lunches to Twitter under the hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama.