Strict new nutritional standards for New York City schools designed to counter childhood obesity have taken bake sales out of students’ arsenal for charity fund-raising, says the Village Voice.

Since June, when the city’s health and education departments issued the new wellness policy that strictly limits sugar, fat, and calorie levels in school food, they have enforced a regulation that only Parent-Teacher Associations can hold bake sales, and then only once a month and not during school lunch periods.

While health officials welcome the new rules, students say the ban removes their lowest-cost and highest-return vehicle to raise money for school projects and charity donations. A Facebook petition drive to overturn the edict has attracted some 3,500 signatures and support from 12 high schools.