Participants Were Motivated to Eat or Prepare Healthy Foods |
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“… before we are eating fruit and vegetables three times a week, something like that, because it’s not enough. Now we got this package with the vegetable—fresh fruit and vegetables, we are eating every day.”
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“You know how we humans are. We got our own little routine and our own little way of doin’ things, but when you’re all sent me those boxes it made me to remember. It was on my mind. It was before my face. I went ahead and ate it.”
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“[My children] get the experience of seein’ different fruits, different greens that they may not have tried, normally. Like zucchini. It’s not that often that I go out and buy a zucchini… ”
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FFRx Positively Impacted Aspects of Wellbeing |
FFRx Promoted Healthy Dietary Habits |
“I feel healthier with all this produce… My sugar levels have lowered. It used to be 300, now it’s under 200. I used to be stressed about can I eat a meal.”
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“The doctor is proud of my A1C and keeping my weight down.”
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“My doctor is pleased with my health because it’s stabilized.”
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FFRx Positively Impacted Social Isolation |
“It gave me something to look forward to, meeting your delivery guys… it gave me a chance to talk to some people, to get out my room. They would tell us not to go out into the halls and circulate so much because of that COVID.”
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FFRx Improved Financial Wellbeing |
“It helps me. You know I don’t get much in food stamps, so it helps me get through the rest of the month… It evens out.”
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“[I’m] able to purchase cleaning supplies and medications without giving up food. I used to skip meals because I could not afford it. That’s not good for being diabetic.”
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“It saves me money. It ensures that I will have at least 1 meal a day.”
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FFRx Alleviated Logistic Barriers to Food Access |
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“I know you have made my life better. Especially during the pandemic, with my autoimmune disorder, I couldn’t go out… ”
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“For someone to be able to deliver something, helps me a lot… Someone older cannot get out and about like they want to… ”
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“Because I don’t do much cooking now… Sometimes I can get around, sometimes I can’t. By me having arthritis, it bothers me to get around to the store and the stove… ”
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Feedback and Suggestions for Improvement |
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“ “I like the little pamphlets that’s in there… I like the information that it provides. The knowledge on different things, different ways you can cook somethin’.”
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“I like my own way of doin’ things. I like to cook my own style is what I’m sayin’. The ingredients and everything that were there, that were fine, but I like to cook the way I like to cook ’cause it’s the way I was raised… ”
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