The “Big Belly” cookies are gone.

The chocolate-chip treats, one about the size of 17-year-old Jackie Chan’s two hands, have been replaced with smaller, applesauce-sweetened cookies the size of her palm.

“I miss the big cookies,” the Grade 12 student said in the school cafeteria at Mississauga’s Applewood Heights Secondary.

“Now there are mini ones ‘ I’ll have to have four,” she joked.

While students may have been longing for some of the treats once available in the caf, they gave the thumbs-up to the new, healthy offerings now mandated by the province.

The new rules force all food sold in a school ‘ including fundraising bake sales ‘ to have high levels of essential nutrients and to be low in fat, sugar and sodium. Foods with little nutritional value ‘ fried foods, candy and energy drinks ‘ are banned.

At Applewood Heights, a test school for the Peel District School Board, healthier foods have been on the new menu for about a year.

Among teens’ favourites are baked fries, pasta and white-meat chicken burgers. On Tuesday, the caf did brisk business, although there were also lineups at the Tim Hortons and the Chinese takeout place about half a kilometre away.

“The fries tasted really good ‘ a big improvement,” added Grade 12 student Daniel Lee, who also raved about the chicken burger. “But sometimes the portions are small for the cost.”

Teacher Angela Currie said cafeteria staff listened to student input when it came to changing the menu.

As for school fundraisers, students had to think of ways to raise money without bake sales ‘ when raising money for Japan after the tsunami, for example, they sold paper cranes instead of baked goods.