I'm in the midwest and school food is awful! Exactly like the menu Zen put up. We have a soda machine, but rumor is that it's going next year. Last year the Student Council put up a "healthy" snack machine. I was really looking forward to it. When they first cranked it up, it had Oreos, Chips Ahoy cookies and Lays chips along with string cheese and yogurt. I asked the sponsor what was so healthy about their stuff, especially the cookies and he replied, "they are in 100 calorie packs and the Lays are baked". I told him that it was still 100 calories worth of crap. Now keep in mind, this guy chained smoked and had a gut a mile wide, so he probably really thought it was healthy.

We now have a new juice machine and I noticed that the tomato juice/v8 juice row goes rather quickly. I think if all of the soda and junk were taken out of the machines and lunches, the students would develop healthier eating habits and their behavior and ability to stay on task would improve! There has also been a movement among the students to stop drinking soda which is kind of cool.