STURGIS, S.D. – This week is National School Lunch Week, and officials are encouraging students to take pictures of their lunches and post them online, or at school, as part of the “School Lunch Snapshot” theme.

The lunch snapshots, however, are nothing new, as students across the country have already taken to Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #thanksmichelleobama to express their thoughts on the unappetizing school food concocted under tightened federal regulations that went into effect in 2012.

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“Lunches are healthier than ever, with more fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, and less fat and sodium,” Joe Schaffer, food service director for the Meade School District, told the Rapid City Journal. “National School Lunch Week is the perfect time to celebrate all of the healthy options we’re serving every day in our schools.”

Leading the charge with National School Lunch Week is the School Nutrition Association, which ironically has been lobbying Congress to roll back some of Michelle Obama’s school food regulations, by providing tool kits, apparel, and other resources to celebrate the big week.

“Celebrate NSLW 2015 with the theme of ‘School Lunch Snapshot,'” the SNA website reads. “It’s about sharing the best, real images of today’s school lunch.”

The SNA wants students to submit their pictures and stories of school food to be featured in the association’s April magazine, and is encouraging students to share their NSLW images, stories and experiences through social media, on school hallways and bulletin boards, and in conversations with parents and the community.

But several recent lunch images posted to Twitter show the strategy may be in bad taste.

Lman plays uploaded an image that appears to be some sort of meat patty in the shape of an animal with its head missing on a stale whole wheat bun, along with the hashtags #thanksmichelleobama and #wtf.

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Two days earlier, Bryce Fehringer posted an image tagged #thanksmichelleobama that’s nearly indescribable – perhaps some kind of meat, peas and carrots slopped together with mashed potatoes.

Tori Olsen’s Oct. 5 Twitter post was equally disgusting with a mystery pasta dish, orange and roll.

Haleigh also posted a picture of her lunch last Thursday that looked like a single tortilla with some cheese.

The problem with bad lunches is so perverse the news site Bustle compiled a whole story on the rubbery pizzas, tasteless burger patties, “mystery mush,” and other concoctions schools are passing off as “healthy” meals.

In some of the images, students are actually holding their plates upside down with their food clung to the plate.

And there’s undoubtedly a lot more frustrated students than the small percentage who take the initiative to post pictures of their disappointing lunch and breakfast meals.

“Every school day, more than 26 million children in 99,800 schools across the country eat a nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunch provided through the National School Lunch Program,” the Journal reports. “More than half of these children receive the meal free or at a reduced price.”

Across the United States, more than 1.2 million students have dropped out of the National School Lunch Program since the stringent federal restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium, whole grains, and other nutritional aspects were imposed on schools at the urging of first lady Michelle Obama. Hundreds of whole schools have opted out of the program, and forfeited federal subsidies, to pull their lunch programs from the red and feed students foods they’ll actually eat and appreciate.

Experts also believe the federal requirement that all students take a fruit or vegetable, whether they want it or not, has created $1 billion in added food waste from public schools. Congress was expected to consider relaxing the regulations as part of a renewal of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, as called for by the SNA to combat plummeting lunch revenues and increased food costs, but opted instead to avoid their responsibilities and have allowed the regulations to continue indefinitely.

Michelle Obama, meanwhile, has vowed to fight for her pet project “until the bitter end.”