Whew, I Thought You Were Trying To Convert Me To Vegan!

More of a jab at poor families.

Is this what poor families eat??? Where I'm from poor families eat rice, beans, vegetables... This stuff is expensive.
- Usually high sodium, no nutrient food is the cheapest.
- If it was off brand it would be really cheap and you know your kids will eat it. Also its EASY. At the end of a long day getting shit on by everyone, sometimes making rice and beans just takes too long and us too much effort.
Bulk beans and rice are the OG poor person food.
Canned soda, cold cuts, and single serving boxed pasta are horribly expensive by comparison.
Anyone who actually had to live cheap would know that. But for some reason "eating like shit" is always conflated with "being poor". As though rich kids don't regularly get stuffed full of quick cook crap by parents too busy working late or traveling long distances to cook proper meals
- Poor people are unfortunately disproportionately targeted by junk food. Food deserts are a real thing in rural or poorer areas. Bulk rice and beans are accessible, but most poor families in America don't seem to realize this.
  I've known many people and families that are convinced that this is the only way to eat. My partner's friend is very ill/malnourished because he doesn't realize he can eat cheaply outside of the food from the gas station he works at. I've also known many that don't cook for themselves at all and order out every day multiple times - regardless of income level. My aunt had severe GI problems and balked at me when I suggested an elimination diet to her after months of her going to doctors with no relief (because it'd require her to cook).
  I feel this is a failing of our education and healthcare system. Ensuring that people know how to nourish their bodies is fairly basic stuff.
- There are other constraints. No stove or hotplate, but someone donated a microwave or immersion idk it's called but boils water. There have been times when if a neighbor hadn't allowed me to come over and cook my meals to carry home, I would've lived on potato chips. Slumlords are real.
- Bulk beans and rice are the OG poor person food.
  I've been unemployed for almost a year now and rice and beans is the shit. Twenty pounds of rice for $10, canned beans for like $1/each, and some spices, and I'm good to go for a while. I do splurge on vegetables and fruit when they're on sale though.
- As though rich kids don't regularly get stuffed full of quick cook crap by parents too busy working late or traveling long distances to cook proper meals
  No, rich kids have a cook, nanny, au pair, etc that cooks them meals. If the parents can't afford a person to cook for their kids, then they're upper middle class at best.
tbf, the system is so fucked up, healthy food should be cheap, vegan diets are literally cheaper. but food deserts, and not having time to cook is a massive punishment.

Nobody needs to force their kids to eat these foods, it's more of a battle to stop them from knowing how great they are for as long as possible

Kraft Mac and cheese is already laco-vegetarian and barely cheese...

But they have a fully plant based option:

You should add Oreos too! Nice vegan kid favorite

The sodas are already vegan!

would absolutely go to bat for KD, that, ground beef and some mixed frozen veggies is what I live on while working on minimum wage

...in the late 70s it was known cross-Canada as "Vancouver steak."

The soda is vegan tho

Where's the Sunny D?

You know the stuff that might contain actual orange juice .... or even water.

I refuse to eat animals because I don't come from a Jewish family. Elohim promised all the animals to Abraham and his descendants, but I don't know if I'm descended from Abraham, and I'm not risking it. The only meat I eat is the flesh of Jesus Christ.