Vending machine heaven . . . . or hell?

I once worked for the largest vending machine company in the U.S. People don't realize that in top selling accounts (like a hospital or school), there can often be a financial incentive for those machines as businesses receive percentages of sales of the junk food. Heck, the Pepsi and coke machines were installed free of charge, always. The driver comes to service it regularly and it's a big, fat check each month for many accounts! I also worked for Frito-Lay, Wonder Bread/Hostess Cake, Entemann pastries and Granny Goose. That's a ton of garbage food that I personally delivered to many schools, workplaces, restaurants and supermarkets. And that's something I don't feel too good about now days.

I remember a elementary school cafeteria lady demanding I leave her an entire extra rack of Twinkies with her usual order because 'the guy before you always left extra and the kids love them'. Hmm. And I recall the hospital contact and how happy he was that I was bringing him about $60,000 a year in monthly check form. He was in the nutritional dept. Hmm.

Today an article about how schools still aren't doing the right thing for our children came out. There's allot of negative news here. But also a silver lining. Some of the junk food options are trending down. And that's great. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46285305/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/#.TzDUcciO1Rw

Ranman lunch picture of the day: wheat bread, chicken, honey dijon mustard, mayonnaise, butter lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, walnuts. Corn chips. All organic.