Table 2.

Themes, subthemes, and representative quotes.

Theme 1: Produce delivery partially alleviated financial stress, contributing to increased produce consumption patterns
Subtheme 1a: Delivery of produce complemented participation in Federal Nutrition Programs (FNPs)	“Getting the bags of fruit and vegetables helped me cut back on getting those type of items with my food stamps and I’ll be able to pick those up for when we don’t have no more of the bag and I could be able to go, like the end of the month, like the 22nd or something until the next month”. (P3) “[Y]ou know with getting stuff from you guys it helped me save more of my food stamps because, like I said I didn’t have to worry about vegetables and that’s, the main thing when you want to eat healthy that’s more important than anything else, just you know good vegetables, fresh vegetables…you don’t get anything fresh from these stores really”. (P15)
Subtheme 1b: Delivery of produce alleviated stress of financial consequences from food waste	“Your all program is very beneficial because I don’t have to go to the store and, at the end of the month, or we really don’t run out of food that much because of the you know produce you all give us so it’s a great program”. (P5) “I like how the produce itself was delivered and not like the means to get it because things were already picked out for me and they were good quality, so I didn’t have to worry about whether or not I was picking the right stuff or the right quality so having it already picked out and delivered and with all the information I needed”. (P1)
Theme 2: Intervention positively shifted nutrition- and cooking-related knowledge and behavior of families
Subtheme 2a: Exposure encouraged families to experiment with produce and diversify their diet	“The experience has been awesome; it’s introduced me to a lot of different vegetables that I never would have cooked in the past”. (P4) “I believe it was getting the different varieties of getting the vegetables in the vegetable and fruit bag cause I really wasn’t a vegetable or fruit person, but when I started receiving that I be eating more vegetables and fruits now”. (P2) “I was never really a squash or zucchini person and I tried it for the first time and I actually liked it”. (P5)
Subtheme 2b: Changes in food purchasing and reduction in processed food consumption	“Buying different vegetables as well, because I didn’t buy much squash or beets and things like that. It’s just good that I can now buy that and just put it in my salad or just eat more salads than just fried foods”. (P15) “We take more time [in the produce] department… and take our time and pick vegetables and sometimes we would pick something that we wouldn’t pick on a regular”. (P6) “[T]he majority of times we probably were either eating fast food or going out. So, we don’t do that often anymore”. (P14)
Subtheme 2c: Participation encouraged family quality time	“We love those [educational materials] it actually helps us prep dinner, make dinner. The girls love to help”. (P7) “I have a 13 year [-old child] and my daughter is about to be two [years-old], so just to have them in the kitchen with me doing different things”. (P15) “My daughter she really wanted to help watch the videos and to help cook and make it and stuff like that”. (P3)
Theme 3: Familial and programmatic barriers affected participation and engagement
Subtheme 3a: Identified Barriers to Participation	“Cause I be too busy dealing with my son he has autism, so I’ll be trying to make sure I give him all of the attention that he needs, so me trying to step back and trying to use [the educational materials] he’ll start doing a little thing where he want my attention”. (P2) “I didn’t really use the FLiP [recipe] cards because I couldn’t really do those without help like somebody showing me stuff”. (P3) “[The recipe cards] would include foods that I don’t eat. Like if it had a meat portion as the protein, I don’t eat meat and then sometimes if I just didn’t have all of the ingredients, I just didn’t use it”. (P10)
Subtheme 3b: Suggestions for Future Program Direction	“I think that it’s great to be able to pick your own food, use your sense of choice and like how I go to YouTube to pick out ingredients for healthy items that I make. I may have that same option by going to pick out those ingredients of my choice versus what was pre-selected in a box for me”. (P13) “I think that if the cards had the names of the actual fruits and vegetables on it, I would have been more likely to try, because I could just Google it or use YouTube but because sometimes, I wouldn’t even know the name of [the produce item], I was less likely to try”. (P10) “If your child has food allergies, then suggest things that we can substitute in his diet. My son has several nuts, milk, and egg sensitivity since he has G6PD, so we can’t eat things like fava beans. So, if it was something that was geared towards kids that have dietary restrictions, we can better understand like okay you want me to give him all of this, but what if he’s allergic to a lot of it, then what can I supplement?” (P9)