Table 3.

Neighbourhood physical environment: availability and access to specific foods and beverages in the neighbourhood (theme emerged only during culminating workshop discussion). Data collected from thirty in-depth interviews, a participatory workshop and a photovoice approach among Latina mothers with <10-year-old children living in a ‘food swamp’ in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, April–May 2015.

Sub-themes	Illustrative quotes
3·1. Description of Latin stores and food availability in those stores
3·1a. Proximity to stores	‘Because we feel more comfortable in the Latin supermarket, but also because it is close to us, because of transportation, it is more convenient to go to Latin stores.’ (In discussion about the various supermarkets of the area and where they bought their foods)
	‘Usually I go to the Latin store, but if I want to buy the fresh fruit, then I have to wait to go to Costco. Then usually I have to wait until Saturdays or Sundays for my husband to be home so that he can take me.’
3·1b. Food availability in Latin stores	‘In the stores they sell a lot of juices and sodas; because they are there, there is consumption! They know we come from a country where we consume Coca-Cola.’
	’We have all this soda. In our own country, one buys what one needs the most. Once in a while you drink one. However, here, there is more access. They gift you a package of soda if you buy $50 or more in the Latin store.’
3·2. Infrastructure for drinking-water (Sub-theme emerged only as a discussion during culminating workshop)	‘Because some say that tap water is more healthful than the other one [bottled]. They have told me to give him [child] water, to give him water from the tap. “I drink tap water and look at me,” they say. But tell me, if I open the tap, and it comes out yellow, should I drink it or not?’
	‘One day, a water inspector came to my house selling water filters. He did an experiment where he poured some drops of water and the water turned automatically turned black.’
	‘I know that water here [in the USA] is recycled from everywhere all the time. It is not like in our countries that it is a river and it runs. Because there [in their countries] you practically see the lake, and we go by and we know that the water passes there. Here, no. Here [in the USA] the water is recycled from the sink, from the toilet all that water runs and comes out again to your tap.’

Costco is a US warehouse that sells foods; it is also a chain.