FARMINGTON, N.M. – Numerous students at Belen Family School in New Mexico contend they were served rotten, slimy, mold-infested roast beef for lunch last week, and took pictures to prove it.

School officials claim they’re lairs.

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Belen Consolidated School officials last week fielded numerous complaints about roast beef sandwiches served to students with a side of blue spots and slime, and officials told KRQE they immediately offered something else. They claim the food was then sent to the district’s Student Nutrition Services for inspection, where school food workers deemed the sandwiches were fine.

“I don’t think they were testing the same sandwiches that were served to our kids,” parent Tino Landavozo said. “I would think that anybody would see that sandwich and not choose to eat it.”

But Landavozo said his son “ate the roast beef” then “went to the playground and he got sick after lunch.”

Belen parents told the news site they’re particularly concerned because the lunches served to students at the Family School are not prepared there, and are transported from a different school.

They said lunches are often undesirable, but mold-infested meat crosses the line, KRQE reports.

“They even said it looked blue,” Landavozo said. “There were blue spots on the roast beef.”

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The complaints are the latest in years of ongoing frustrations from parents and school food service workers since Michelle Obama-inspired school food restrictions went into effect in 2012. Since that time, more than 1.4 million students have dropped out of the National School Lunch Program, and experts believe the changes have contributed to a roughly $1 billion annual increase in school food waste.

Across the country, students who remain in the program continue to protest against their lunches online by posting images of the gruesome fare to Twitter with the hashtag #thanksmichelleobama. In hundreds of school districts, officials have opted to forego federal lunch subsidies to ditch the National School Lunch Program and its restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium and other nutritional elements.

The Bozeman, Montana school district, for one, managed to pull its school lunch program from the red after implementing the changes by dropping out of the federal lunch program to serve students foods they’ll actually buy and eat. Despite giving up $117,000 in federal subsidies for Bozeman High School, the district’s food service budget was positive $1,441 earlier this month after ending the 2014-15 school year $16,000 in the hole, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports.

Proponents of Michelle Obama’s school food restrictions in October attempted to counter the #thanksmichelleobama movement by encouraging students to post images of their “healthy” lunches online for a “School Lunch Snapshot” during National School Lunch Week, but it didn’t work out as planned, EAGnews reports.

Numerous students shared images of their school lunches, but most were images of mystery meat mush, rubbery pizza slices, stale buns, and odd-shaped under- and over-cooked meat patties.

The problem with bad lunches is so perverse the news site Bustle compiled a whole story about some of the worst concoctions served to students.

In some of the images, students are actually holding their plates upside-down as their food clings to the dish. And there’s undoubtedly a lot more frustrated students than the small percentage who take the initiative to post pictures of their disappointing breakfast and lunch meals.

To make matters worse, the incident in Farmington and recent reports on New Jersey school cafeterias make it clear the new regulations are not only rendering school food virtually inedible, they could also put students at serious risk of contracting food poisoning or other serious food-borne illnesses.