KELSO, Wash. – The complaints continue to pour in.

In Washington State’s Mark Morris, R.A. Long and Kelso high schools an increasing number of students are opting to bring their lunch from home or go off campus for food because federal regulations have made school lunch unappetizing, The Daily News reports.

“Ever since we tried the hamburgers, we ate out,” Mark Morris freshman Baylee Ranta told the news site.

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“The district should ask students more about the food and then ask themselves if they would eat it,” said Dylan Mistic, a junior at Mark Morris High School.

Officials in the Kelso and Longview school districts that oversee the high schools haven’t heeded that advice, but the Daily News recently conducted an unscientific survey of nearly 100 students at R.A. Long and Mark Morris and the results were not surprising.

According to the survey, “68 percent said they don’t eat in the school cafeteria (the rate was slightly higher at MM, which has more off-campus food options). About 55 percent said they eat off campus because they could get better-tasting food (the percentage at MM was twice as high as at RAL),” the news site reports.

“About a quarter of the students commented that the cafeteria food tasted frozen or processed.”

About 76 percent of students surveyed said they eat healthy food and junk food, but not cafeteria food.

Many students commented in the survey that they thought the new school lunch standards, which are championed by First Lady Michelle Obama as a means to combat childhood obesity through bureaucracy, were offensive and not necessarily very healthy.

“I think it is a bad idea because we are high school students, we will eat whatever we want and making the food taste horrible doesn’t stop us,” a Mark Morris student wrote.

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“This is a bad policy because it is not healthy for some people to not have much salt or sugars. For me, my blood sugar will lower so I need to leave the school or bring some for these times,” said another.

One R.A. Long high school student blamed Michelle Obama personally.

“Bad idea! Took away my favorite food/drinks from the Jack Shack,” the student wrote.  “Really disappointing. Thanks, Michelle Obama.”

Another student at R.A. Long believes a well-rounded approach to nutrition would be more effective than having federal officials dictate nutrition requirements.

“I think that students should have to make their own choices on what they eat (and) learn to handle what they eat by balancing it with exercise,” the student wrote.

District officials, meanwhile, continue to struggle with increasing food waste and slumping lunch sales, but are sticking with the National School Lunch Program, unlike hundreds of other high schools around the country that have dropped out of the program since the new regulations took effect in 2012.

“The hardest part for us is (the difference between) what’s good for you and what (students) eat,” Longview nutrition services director Rick Traynor told The Daily News. “Long-term, I think this is the right thing.”

Traynor also blamed parents for the problems with the federal lunch restrictions, which limit the amount of calories, fat, sugar, sodium and other aspects of school food.

“It’s hard to change the palate if they don’t eat (well) at home,” he said. “I don’t think we’re going to see the effect for 10 years down the road. The Palate won’t change overnight.”

“The more (‘healthy’ food) is offered, the more they’ll try it,” Traynor said.

Students, on the other hand, disagree.

“You can’t force the students to eat healthier by changing the menu. The students will go across to Winco and eat stuff that’s worse for you than how the cafeteria food was,” a Mark Morris student wrote in the survey.