Vending+Machines

**Vending Machines** Vending machines are used by many students as the food/beverage is ready to go, always available regardless of time and most items are not very pricey. The only problem with vending machines is that most of the food in them consists of junk food. Chips, chocolate, cookies, candy, and pop consists majority of a vending machine. To solve this problem, we thought of having healthier food choices in vending machines. In our current vending machines, we can include grain bars, fruit bars, almond, tinned fruits, nature square, rice squares and pretzels (Healthy Vending Machine Choices). Additionally, we can have a refrigerated vending machine where we can include snacks such as yogurt, fresh fruit, vegetables with dip, fruit salad, cheese and crackers, tuna and crackers, and green salad with low fat dressing (Healthy Vending Machine Choices). They already have machines that have beverages, but water, milk and 100% fruit and vegetable juice should also be included (Healthy Vending Machine Choices). This way at 2 a.m. when all the other food places on campus are closed students have an option of eating/drinking something filling and healthy at the same time. These new healthy vending machines can be implemented through HealthyVendCanada. They have "approved healthy products" (HealthyVendCanda 2009).