SULPHUR, La. – Calcasieu Parish parent Chris Lincoln is not impressed with his son’s school food, and he’s airing his grievances in the media.

He was particularly upset about the breakfast his 13-year-old son was served at LeBlanc Middle School in Sulphur on Thursday.

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“He picked his plate up, he went and sat down to eat and I had him send me this picture,” Lincoln told KPLC. “I was livid because I should at least be able to identify what is on the plate.”

The picture showed breakfast consisted of a white scoop of something, white bread and a piece of melted cheese, along with a brown banana and chocolate milk.

“Grits shouldn’t look like a scoop of ice cream, break with cheese is not a breakfast item that I have ever heard of and if you’re going to get fruit, if it’s a banana, it shouldn’t be half-black by the time you get it,” Lincoln said.

The Louisiana father is the latest in a years-long trend of parents, students, nutrition experts, and school officials complaining about federal mandates on school food imposed at the behest of first lady Michelle Obama in 2012. The government restrictions on calories, fat, sugar, sodium, whole wheat, fruits and vegetables have convinced more than 1.2 million students to drop out of the National School Lunch Program in recent years, including entire schools that have watched their cafeteria revenues plummet, EAGnews reports.

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The changes also spawn the social media hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama, used by students who post pictures to Twitter and other sites to protest their disgusting and often unidentifiable cafeteria offerings.

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Of course, many local school officials have done their best to justify the unappetizing school meals as more nutritious and healthy than in years past, though some health experts dispute that assertion.

The tightened federal regulations are designed to fight childhood obesity through bureaucracy, but many parents, including Lincoln, believe the changes are starving growing students and negatively impacting their chances at academic success.

“For a 13-year-old boy, and I can’t speak for little girls, but they require more subsistence throughout the day and what they are feeding them is not nutritious, and it’s not good for them and he comes home every day like he’s starving, and I pay for that and I feel like whoever is in charge of this meal plan is not doing what they need to be doing,” Lincoln told KPLC. “You know that’s my money, my child, he should be getting a decent lunch.”

District food service director Patricia Hosemann defended the grits and bread breakfast by explaining that the USDA considers cheese a meat replacement, and other items on the plate contain protein, so it technically meets federal regulations.

“The banana is half a cup of fruit, the grits count as a bread, the slice of toast counts as a bread item, the cheese counts as a meat, the milk, I have to serve the milk as well, and it’s got protein in that as well so there’s protein on the plate and has met all the meal components that have to be served on that plate,” she said.