Nov. 5—In school lunchrooms across the Twin Cities, new federal nutrition standards have cut the fat, shrunk portions and added fruits and vegetables. School-lunch sales are down as much as 10% in some cafeterias across the east metro, district records show. Most of that decline comes from high schools, with elementary- and middle-school sales remaining flat.
Take Apple Valley High School, where junior Maddi Engel says students have considered boycotting the new meals because they are tasteless, too small and too costly.