Federal mandates made school lunches cost more and forced foods into them most kids don’t care for so the Derry School District Lunch program 
is pondering why overall receipts are down.
“The food service numbers are significantly less on student sales,” Simard said. She said the food services department is still working to determine the cause and whether it is the result of new meal plans and food choices required under state and federal reimbursement guidelines.
She knows why she is just being diplomatic. The Feds have made lunch cost more. They have made the cost of providing lunch cost more. They have simultaneously required foods that a majority of the target hot lunch customer base does not enjoy while making foods they do less accessible or unavailable. The result is more cost for less benefit.
Being programmed by the state has finally hit kids where they live–in the stomach. And there is an important lesson to be learned if the kids and their stomachs are listening. That lesson is this: Federal mandates apply force, limit choices, and result in waste, and that is exactly what has happened thanks to Michelle Obama and her meddling bureaucrats at the USDA etc.