Sunday, 28 December 2008
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Living Off Of Vending Machine Food
This is a guest blog submitted by Christine
I was stuck in school for Thanksgiving break. None of the dining halls were open so I had to live off of vending machine food.
I think pretzels are the best things to get. Granola bars can be deceiving (high in sugar). I'm craving a giant salad right now or sandwich. I once saw a vending machine that had things like carrot sticks and stuff.
Anyone have any good vending machine stories? One time a bag of chips was almost out, so my friend got the thing above it so when it fell, it knocked the bag below it down. Also, people in my high school would shake the vending machines to get a bag of chips to fall out.
Some say vending machines inside schools are contributing to teenage obesity. This was on the English regents exam.
Do you think they should ban vending machines from schools? Have you seen any vending machines that offer healthier alternatives other than unhealthy snacks?
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- About Me: My name is Christine. I like to eat healthy. I like organic/ALL NATURAL products. I'm into making LOW FAT meals. Gonna keep track of healthy foods and exercise stuff here. Maybe I'll put some BREAKDANCING here too.
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I used to laugh at the vending machines in my high school... in an attempt to offer healthier choices, they put apples in the machine! HA! Needless to say, those were never bought.
I'm in college now and we do have vending machines. I don't mind them being there, because they're not a temptation for me... why? Because I'm a poor college student. hehe.
Ugh. I hate vending machine food.
It has almost nothing to do with what's offered. It's more to do with the kids' self control and how much money they have. If they have the money and they're hungry, they'll go for the best-tasting thing in the machine. If the food was healthier AND tasted great, then kids might buy it... you can't go wrong with grapes, heh. ^^ Though that would be difficult for a vending machine... I don't know. -.- I've never actually seen a machine that offered healthy alternatives, but it could be a good idea, as long as it's stuff people like.
Unfortunately, I've never seen vending machines that offered healthy, nutritional snacks. If they did, I'm sure those snacks would be among the most expensive items, too.
my high school had a bunch of soy products, which was kind of cool. then they switched all the pop machines to vitamin water.
My college has vending machines with about 4 or 5 healthy choices for food. These foods are marked by a little picture of a green leaf, and I've never taken the time to read the thing on the side, but that indicates that it has a certain acceptable amount of fat and sugar and all the stuff you care about. It's cool. But it's only like these rice cake snacks, and Wheat Thin type stuff.
At my HS, they used to have Snapple machines. One year they switched it to the "healthier" version, Snapple 100% Juiced or something like that. I laughed a lot because these new juices had more sugar than soda. Good job.
When I don't have time to go to the dining hall, pretzels are definitely what I get. Pretzels and water or a Diet Pepsi are more filling than you'd think, hah.
THAT. IS. HORRID.
I blame the school.
There's Curves bars in the vending machine at my highschool, but those contain corn syrup and a billion other chemicals. But its' misleadingly packaged and promoted as a weight loss product.
I do not believe that vending machines should be banned from schools.
Our school's Nutrtion Club lobbied, and thus far all they've done succesfully is ban classroom pizza parties, slightly (but not notable) reduce junk food fundraiser, and place only diet sodas in the soda machines. Aside from caloric content, studies find that diet sodas are auctully worse for you than regular. >.>
Why dont they replace those vending machine food such as chips and other junk food..with a healthy alternative.
I wish my university had any!
lol our vending machine is in the laundry room.
yes they should and tehy should put whatever in it, we need better heath education removing temptation doesnt remove the effect because its not the cause
The vending machine at our work sucked. It was rare you found something healthier than a bag of chips in it.
i remember getting candies, chocolate and chips at vending machine all the time when i was in high school... lol i think in toronto, they banned vending machines that sell pops in school but not sure about the junk food ones since i have been out of high school for a few years. i think it's a good idea to offer healthier alternatives in vending machines, however like some people mentioned above, they are probably gonna be expensive and lack of choices.
i am a college student and i do think that i am gaining weight due to what i buy from the vending machines but ... >_> it's mostly my fault for choosing to go to the vending machine because it's convenient and only a dollar or two.
My school used to have a vending machine. It had peanuts, raisins and a few other organic things. And five drink choices. Everything in there was so gross and there was only one of each thing. So there were only about 10 items total so not very many people would be able to get something. My school is a small middle/high school (about 163 people total) but that was ridiculous.
Besides the stuff thats not necessarily bad for you but not real healthy either (pretzels, animal crackers, baked chips etc), the vending machines at my college actually have health foods in them, such as trail mix, VEGAN- protein snack bites, granola bars, and dried fruit.
even so, I try to avoid the vending machines because its like mindless snacking food.
I usually can't stand vending machine food, but last semester, I had a 3 hour long Art History lecture on Monday nights from 6-9pm. She always let us go on a break halfway through, and there was conveniently a vending machine right outside of the classroom.
Every time, I would say to myself "Bring a snack beforehand, you're going to fall asleep unless you can snack" but I'd forget, so I would quickly forgo $.85 for a bag of cheetos to get me through the lecture.
@PixelDOT@xanga - ah! I had the same situation with my sociology lecture! we are not aloooooone.
I dont like vending machine food, at college we had three vending machines for pops (since we had two sites) secondary school we had two and a tuck shop selling more candy.
The vending machine in my school, has a few healthy granola bars, but other than that, it's all unhealthy. But I don't buy it from it.
i doubt vending machines are causing obesity. i cant believe you had to eat vending machine food for thanksgiving! you couldnt have called one of your friends to drop something off for you?
Vending machines are banned from public schools in my area, but they're all around my college campus.
No. I don't think it is the school's responsibility to offer healthy snacks in the vending machine. When you are in college, you are perfectly capable of making good nutrition choices. The same goes for high school students. Vending machines are not causing obesity. People eating too much and not exercising enough is causing obesity. I have seen vending machines that offer fruit, but I wouldn't buy it because it didn't look fresh.
When i was a freshmen and softmore in high school the options were all unhealthy but we never had a soda machine. By junior year they started putting fruitsnacks as oppose to candy bars and apple sticks but then no one bought anything so they put the shit food back. in college the one in the dorms is all unhealthy but the one in SAC has sensible sandwhiches.
there's nothing wrong with having vending machines in schools...a kid who's hungry can get a small bag of chips, eat the whole thing, and be happy. or they could go home, grab a huge "family size" bag of chips and eat from it for a long time and end up eating more chips then. snacks are good for you. it's not like you're eating a whole meal of junk food. school vending machines aren't making kids fat, it's how they're taught to eat at home that makes them fat.
my school took all the soda from the machines and replaced it with vitamin water, fuze, and water (we already had water though). this sounds like a good plan except there's just as much high fructose corn syrup, calories, and sugar in them as coke. the only difference is is that soda is fizzy. they really need to do their research.