LUBBOCK, Texas – Lubbock Independent School District officials just put the kibosh on selling pickles and popcorn at school fundraisers.

Instead, students must now choose from a list of “healthy,” government-approved snack items to hock.

“I think we have a list of about 45 different smart snacks that would qualify,” superintendent Berhl Robertson told Lubbock Online.

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School board members recently approved changes to the district’s student welfare, wellness and health services policy to comply with new federal regulations on snacks sold at school during school hours. The federal school snack restrictions, promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama in her quest to fight childhood obesity through government intervention, were imposed this year on schools that participate the National School Lunch Program.

The changes are part of the Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, which started with restrictions on calories, fat, sodium, whole grains and other aspects of school lunch in 2012, then snowballed from there. The result has been a sharp spike in the number of students dropping out of the national lunch program, $1 billion per year in food waste, and school food and fundraiser sales circling the drain.

In hundreds of school districts, school officials have opted to drop out of the National School Lunch Program and forfeit the federal funding to save their declining food programs and serve students meals they will actually eat. In some places, like Maine’s Mount Desert Elementary School – located on an island in the Atlantic Ocean, school officials have used local resources to keep their lunch programs viable, while others don’t have that luxury.

“Farm to School is a large part of our program, for this reason we utilize foods from local farms and Maine’s largest farm, the ocean. We have served lobster rolls, locally caught haddock and shark,” according to a USDA blog.

In Lubbock, board members unanimously approved changes to the school food policy to comply with the government’s edicts, but “board President Dan Pope said he thought Founding Fathers such as Thomas Jefferson were probably spinning in their graves at the federal government’s actions,” the news site reports.

The new snack rules require schools to limit snack foods sold on campus during school hours to 200 calories each, and a maximum of 230 milligrams of sodium. There can also be less than 35 percent of calories from fat, less than 10 percent from saturated fat, no trans fat, and a maximum of 35 percent by weight from total sugars, Chalkbeat.org reports.

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Of course, that eliminates most foods sold at school fundraisers, which convinced some states like Georgia and Colorado to offer special exemptions. But many schools are simply trying to figure out a way to continue to raise money for school clubs and sports teams by other means.

“While talk of Smart Snack rules have been moving though food service circles for months, many educators and parents are just beginning to hear about them,” Chalkbeat reports.

Jeremy West, nutrition service director for Colorado’s Weld 6 school district, told the news site “when he covered the topic with district principals this summer, they were apprehensive. To some, it felt like the sky was falling.”

“It’s going to make the sponsors of our clubs a little more creative,” West said.

Either that, or the clubs will be forced to make do with a lot less money.

In the Fort Collins school district, for example, the annual Putnam Elementary School candy bar fund-raiser – which typically brings in $4,000 to $5,000 each year – is being phased out and replaced with a jogathon.

Last year, “it didn’t raise a lot of money – a modest $1,144, but it was a fun community-building event that organizers plan to continue. Meanwhile, chocolate bars will be phased out of the school’s fundraising mix,” Chalkbeat reports.