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Choosing
the Right Snack
It's way
past lunchtime, and you ran out of the house this morning
without packing any food. What's more, you don't have time
to pack up all your books and papers and lug them across campus
to the cafeteria for a leisurely meal. What do you do? As
a last resort, you turn to our campus vending machines for
any kind of nourishment they can offer. Wait a minute, what
exactly do these machines have to offer? You won't find a
well balanced meal, but a nutritionally lopsided snack food
with just as many calories as a meal.
Vending machine
snacks are not entirely off limits in a well balanced diet. If you
have to choose between "junk" food and no food, you are better off
eating a snack now and compensating for it with the meals you eat
later in the day. The question then becomes "what should I choose
from the vending machine?"
The Incredible
Shrinking Selection
It's bad enough that our vending machines offer such a poor
selection of food, but what's worse is that our choices are further
limited by machines that are out-of-stock. For two months now, the
chip machine has been out-of-stock of some or all of its items,
despite repeated phone calls to the company. In mid November, the
machine was partially re-stocked, but with items which were expired.* One slot was refilled with the wrong product. Moreover, in early
October, the machines in buildings two and eight contained eleven
items that expired–some as long ago as the Spring semester.
*"Do
not sell by" date on package had passed.
Members
analyze labels on vending
machine snacks. |
Where
Am I ?
Your selection depends on your location. If you are
in buildings three, five, six, or seven, then sorry, you are
out of luck because there are no snack food vending machines
there.
If you
are in the computer lab on the first floor of building two,
there is a machine just down the hall. Unfortunately, it contains
exclusively candy.
If you
are studying in MESA, Biology, Chemistry, or Physics labs,
or building eight's computer labs, you have a choice between
one of those same candy machines, and a vending machine that
sells nothing but chips. Only the second floor of building
one, and the third floor of building eight have vending machines
with a "selection" of snack foods.
What
are the best choices?
What about those big packages? Read
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