If you find yourself buying lunch from a vending machine, excellent nutrition can be hard to come by.

Organic Vending is a two-month-old business based in Rensselaer designed to help consumers with that problem. As its name implies, the company supplies area businesses and schools with alternative vending machine snack options.

"People see the word organic and they think it's soybeans and tofu, and it's not. There is an organic version of pretty much everything," said Bob Wolf, company co-owner and long-time organic food eater.

The company has supplied organic vending machines for several businesses, including Media Logic, WTEN, the State Trooper barracks in Livingston, and is in the process of supplying YMCA Saratoga.

Goeff Middle School in Rensselaer, and Averill Park Schools are offering the company's snacks via a snack bar, according to Wolf.

"To my knowledge, they are the first schools in the country to do this," Wolf said.

Calling the regular snacks offered in vending machines and snack bars "toxic," Wolf explained the cold snack organic vending machines still offer things like sodas, potato chips, peanut butter cups and chocolate bars, only made from all organic ingredients. The machines also offer dried fruit strips, pretzels, beef jerky and nuts. "And the snacks cost no more than regular vending machines. We have drinks for $1.25, sodas for $1. People often assume it's going to be more expensive," Wolf said.

"We have a hundred-plus products that can be put in the machines," Wolf said. "All our foods meet the four musts. No artificial flavor. No artificial color. No trans-fats. No preservatives," Wolf said.

The company also offers frozen-food vending machine with organic meal options such as chicken pot pie and burritos.

"We can even do multi-use machines, where organic and non-organic snacks can be purchased. We want to fulfill the needs of the customer. And I figure if we can get our foot in the door we'll have a better chance of converting people," Wolf said.