PRINCETON, N.J. – Perhaps the real motive behind the school menu changes and snack regulations is for students to slim down by not eating at all.

After all, how else could you explain a school district changing its menu to include “black bean cookies”?

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NJ.com reports:

Chicken salad sliders, yogurt parfaits and black bean cookies are among the menu choices that will replace slushy drinks and deep-fried chips when students file into cafeterias in the Princeton school district this upcoming school year.

The school board Tuesday unanimously approved a $61,245 food service contract with Nutri-Serve Food Management of Burlington Township for the 2014-15 school year.

“It is very, very important to this board and this community that we have a food service program that provides high-quality nutrition for our students that expands their palates with the experience of foods from other places,” Superintendent Steve Cochrane said at the meeting.

The company, Nutri-Serve, suggested making the cafeteria “an extension of the classroom,” according to the paper.

“Nutri-Serve’s dietitian discussed the possibility of ‘a persuasive essay with students on the pros and cons of chocolate milk versus regular milk and having the kids look at doing the research and present their ideas on that,'” the superintendent says, NJ.com reports.

“Food is an art, it’s a science, it’s a necessity. It is something that obviously has a powerful impact on physical wellness, also mental wellness,” Cochrane adds.

Tell that to the football players hoping to get enough calories from black bean cookies.