A Montana high school is proving that schools can attract students to healthful meals without conforming to Michelle Obama’s heavy-handed and tasteless "Let them eat kale" guidelines, reports EAG News. 

Last year, Bozeman High School board members voted to pull out of Michelle's National School Lunch Program because federal nutritional regulations championed by the first lady were driving students off campus for lunch. Instead of forking over their lunch money on the government-mandated goods - I wish I could take credit for that pun, but it's straight out of the EAG article - students instead flocked to local fast food joints, which severely impacted the district’s food service budget.

School officials realized it made more financial sense to forgo $117,000 in federal food subsidies tied to the National School Lunch Program to lure students back into the cafeteria.

“We’re off to a good start,” Bob Burrows, Bozeman’s food service director, told board members Monday, according to the news site.“Our traffic is way up," he said, over 1,000 customers a day regularly, largely due to a sharp spike in “extra food” sales. Districtwide, schools took in more than $54,000 in extra food sales - a 48 percent jump from last year.

Last year the food service budget ended $16,000 in the red, but so far for the 2015-2016 school year, the food service program is $1,441 in the black across the district.

The district closely tracks the nutritional content of the student meals, and even provides that information on a smart phone app so that parents and students can reference the menus each week.

Sorry Michelle, but people are finding that government parenting isn't the answer.