Healthy Choices

Official Dosomething.org Project

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Taylor S

Cottonwood, CA
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The Problem

My stomach ALWAYS growls before lunch...After talking to a few students at my high school, we had all found out we were suffering from the same thing; hunger before lunchtime! Students began bringing chocolate, soda and greasy chips to school just to snack on between their classes. A group of friends and myself decided that we needed to provide healthier food options and snacks at our school BETWEEN classes and meals. We want to install a vendng machine on our campus that includes healthy and filling snacks like granola bars, pretzels and nutrigrain bars! We wanted to make sure that the students and faculty on our campus were provided healthy options everywhere they went! My friends and I created a survey for the english classes about a vending machine on campus. Would they purchase food from a vending machine? How many times a day would they purchase from it? What would they want to buy that is healthy and nutritious? We hope to install about three vending machines on campus in the front, middle and back of campus. Each Vending machine would have a bulletin board on the side. There we can post new healthy snacks options, nutrition facts and the nutritous meal of the week! We have the administration supporting us all the way! EVen though our project is still under construction, we hope to accomplish it soon.

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