Now the Lake Washington School District is trying to give students meals they'll eat and still be nutritious.

Hamburgers, french fries, corn dogs and pizza. At first glance, lunch at Lakeview Elementary looks like a heart attack in the making.

But it's low fat hamburger, turkey dogs, and low fat cheese on the pizza. And if you walk out to the salad bars, there's leafy green salad, broccoli, cauliflower, yogurt and fruit.

Lake Washington school lunches are all about giving students a choice.

"I think this is just a start," says Sodexho School Services Manager George Hulett.

Sodexho, which provides lunches at Lake Washington, has beefed up the nutritional value and plans to keep expanding, "to add additional things to the salad bar, different variety." But Hulett adds, "I think the question is to bring the kids along with us at the same time."

But some parents say lunch programs like Lake Washington's are too little too late. They want the district to do more for school nutrition, including getting rid of candy and treats as rewards in the classroom.

Gretchen Colonius' kids are active, they play sports and eat healthy. But she says high cholesterol runs in her family. And she believes teaching kids that pizza, hamburgers and fries are part of a balanced diet isn't healthy.

"I don't think that we should provide children bad food to eat and say, that's all they'll eat," she said.

State legislators passed a law requiring all school districts to have a nutrition and fitness policy by August. Colonius wants the plan to limit choices at elementary schools so kids must choose healthy foods. She wants soda out of all schools and candy and other treats eliminated as rewards.

"Our culture is such that we want to show love and affect for the kids and that's an easy way to do it," she said.

Lake Washington is working on a plan that would cut fat and sugar even further, but says they must go slow, so kids will actually eat it. Hulett says going slowly has helped them build the success of the healthy choices they have now.

But Colonius says she's not in favor of going slow, "right now it's not working, our kids are getting obese."

Lake Washington's School Board will talk about a new nutrition and fitness policy for the entire district at their meeting Monday night.