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I get where you're coming from OP but poor people really don't have the same opportunity to,
>pick up some produce
I used to work in some of the poorest parts of the United States. If I walked into a bodega at lunch time, there weren't many (or any) healthy options for a quick lunch or, even for a "take it home and cook it" lunch. Produce would be limited to apples and oranges, because they don't go bad. [This] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert) really is a thing. If I wanted to eat starch and starch and fried foods, I could do it, but there was nothing healthy available for me to buy. And I had money, without the limits that the locals may have had with food stamps or income. The typical quick option for lunch would be rice and beans and plantains and fried chicken wings. It was filling and cheap, and was about the worst thing someone could eat if they cared about their health.
And honestly, if you're feeding a bunch of kids, stuff like mac & cheese is going to go further than produce. And if you're dealing with a bunch of kids, and you work your two shitty "part time" jobs for 45 hours a week, you may not have it in you to make them eat stuff they don't want to eat. I recently read [this] (https://www.amazon.com/American-Hunger-Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Washington-ebook/dp/B00LRIXKS8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1480338368&sr=1-1&keywords=american+hunger) and it was pretty eye-opening.
Until recently there was really no education on how to eat or feed a family and even now, it's pretty sparse. If you're poor and not well educated, you may think that the first call is to just feed yourself and your family and not worry about The Sugar or blood pressure or weight. And if you're surrounded by fat people, then well, that's how fat logic goes.
If I go to Whole Foods, there is no one there who is fat. Just, no one. It's not acceptable to be fat and be wealthy. But if I go down to the Market Basket a few towns over, or Walmart, I feel like I have anorexia. And oh boy I don't. But the people who are lower middle class, or outright poor, don't make the same eating decisions that those in the upper percentages of income do.
Like I said, I get where you are coming from OP, but I think some empathy with the poor is useful for this situation. It's not as cut and dried as you make it seem.