BOZEMAN, Mont. – Another school is considering their lunch options, and could soon conclude that Michelle Obama’s lunches aren’t its best bet.

“They’re voting with their feet,” Bob Burrows, food service director for the Bozeman School District told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

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For the first time in two decades, the district’s school lunch program is in the red after sales dropped from about $1.2 million last year to $1 million in 2014-15.

Burrows believes the loss is the result of tight restrictions on calories, fat, sodium, sugar, and other aspects of school food imposed by the federal government through the National School Lunch Program in recent years.

He’s now asking the Bozeman School Board to drop out of the national lunch program and forfeit $117,500 in subsidies for free and reduced price lunch students, money that he believes will undoubtedly be recouped by serving students foods they actually buy and eat. The majority of the lost revenues occurred at the high school, where students are allowed to go off campus during lunch, according to the news site.

Burrows told NBC Montana in March that whole grain and sodium requirements, in particular, are problematic.

“The sodium levels are pretty low and finding foods, grains, whole grain foods is really difficult,” he said.

The food issues at the high school were further complicated by a recent reconfiguration of district kitchens that makes it more difficult to craft meals from scratch, and the high school’s recent transition from two 35-minute lunch periods to one hour-long lunch, which gives students more time to find a meal off campus, Burrows said.

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“Even with the single lunch period, we were doing OK – until the federal rules hit,” he said. “That was the straw that did it all.”

Burrows said the ever increasing restrictions on sodium will continue to cause problems if the district doesn’t take action now to ditch the national lunch program at the high school.

The Daily Chronicle reports that sodium limits are expected to drop to 740 mg per serving by 2022.

“I don’t know what we’re going to feed them,” Burrows said.

Bozeman High School food service manager Alison Beckman told the news site she believes the federal school food restrictions championed by first lady Michelle Obama is encouraging teens to eat elsewhere, and they’re not going to the health food store.

“They’re young adults,” she said. “At this age you’re not going to tell them what to eat. All the new rules and mandates have done is push students off campus to the fast-food restaurants.”

That’s obvious by the drastic decline in sales, she said.

“We used to sell nine cases or more a week of Gatorade,” Beckman told the Daily Chronicle. “I’m told we can’t sell it because it’s got calories in it.

“We used to offer Rice Krispy treats and brownies, Wilcoxson’s ice cream sandwiches. Now we can’t serve anything but sugar-free ice cream. So they leave,” she said.

It’s apparently gotten so bad that one student joked about the school’s shrinking chocolate chip cookies during her graduation speech.

“Thanks, Michelle Obama,” Rosalyn Kutsch said, referencing the wildly popular social media hashtag #thanksmichelleobama students use to tag images of their unappetizing lunches online.

Bozeman district officials are expected to vote on pulling the high school out of the National School Lunch Program July 13.