NEW TRIPOLI, Pa. – School board members in the Lehigh School District recently sampled student lunches at the local high school and the experience has left a bad taste in their mouths.

“The food was obviously not home cooked,” board member Joseph Reiter said at a recent meeting, according to WFMZ.com.

“It’s pretty tough when you have to abide by the administration’s [President Barack Obama] USDA [United States Department of Agriculture] program. We want to make it [lunch] better,” the news site reports.

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Board Vice President Paul Fisher Jr. wasn’t very impressed, either.

“It was certainly eye opening,” he said. “I think we have a lot of work to do.”

The board is now discussing the possibility of pulling the high school out of the National School Lunch Program because of strict federal restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium and other elements imposed on schools as part of the Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act, First Lady Michelle Obama’s pet project.

While dropping out of the program will require the district to forgo federal lunch subsidies, Lehigh school officials, like hundreds of others across the U.S., believe it’s worth it to serve students food they’ll actually eat.

In many, many public schools students are revolting against their bland new lunch menu by bringing their own food from home, resulting in significant cafeteria revenue losses, and that’s exactly what’s occurring in the Lehigh district.

“We’ve been experiencing a decline in student meals,” district Supervisor of Food Services Lori Seier told board members, WFMZ reports.

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“If the district moves to remove the high school from the national program, whole grains would be returned, portion sizes would be increased, fruits and vegetables would no longer be required, al la carte items would be offered and Chick-fil-A day would be reinstated,” according to the news site.

Lehigh board members plan to survey students and parents to determine how they feel about school lunches, and ditching the national lunch program, and are expected to revisit the issue at their January board meeting.

“Student input is very important for the meal,” board president Darryl Schafer said. “Parent input is very important because they have to pay for the meal.”

If they take action, the high school would be removed from the program in the fall of 2015, though the district’s other schools would remain enrolled.

Complaints about Michelle Obama’s school food restrictions have continued to gain steam in many states, despite the First Lady’s attempts to persuade students and parents of the alleged health benefits of the changes, which aim to fight childhood obesity through government bureaucracy.

At Wisconsin’s D.C. Everest High School, senior Meghan Hellrood recently organized a very successful student boycott of school lunches that garnered participation from about 85 percent of her classmates.

“We looked at our lunches, and we were like, you know we’re not being served anything that’s really that healthy and we’re just being served really small portions of processed foods and we want more healthy options,” Hellrood said.

Hellrood and her friends were so adamant about avoiding school lunch they even packed healthy meals for students who couldn’t otherwise afford to participate in the boycott.

“We made turkey and ham sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, salami sandwiches. And then we put in Nutrigrain bars and yogurt and included a water with it too,” she said.

Hundreds of school districts have opted to drop the National School Lunch Program because of lost lunchroom revenue. At least a million students have stopped buying school lunches since the “healthy” federal restrictions went into effect.

Those restrictions, which require students to take a fruit or vegetable whether or not they want it, has also resulted in more than $1 billion in food waste as many students simply dump their greens in the garbage.