I will admit that assuming you have never faced hardship like that is not fair. Maybe you have, and maybe you handled it differently.

Still, its disrespectful to make someone feel bad for feeding their family Taco Bell. Maybe they didn’t have time or the knowledge to cook food for that cheap.

Taco Bell is as good an option as any other cheap fast food place. None of them are healthy or anything, and that’s not the point. The point is that they are cheap and quick, and sometimes that’s what people need. Nobody should feel bad about it, including yourself.

It’s the hidden cost of being poor. If time is an asset, the working poor don’t have that either. Even outside of a food desert. It requires that much more planning/mental energy to think about meal planning when both parents are working and the rest of life is happening.

Your communication on this issue comes off as a form of victim blaming.