My life without sugar

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63. As a poor person who relies on going to food pantries to get enough to eat. let me chime in.

If there is one type of item that is always readily available at food pantries, it's anything with sugar--junk food, sugary cereals, even candy bars along with foods that are simple carbs. Sure, you can get produce but the reason they have it is because it was donated due to it's being close or even past its expiration date. So you're good for a few days.
You can go to the food pantry once a month when they are open and then one Saturday a month there is a food fair where everybody gets into a long line, maybe more than a hundred people, to get whatever they have to give out. Again, usually lots of junk. The irony is that when you look at the people in line most of them don't appear to be suffering from missing meals. Lots of very overweight people because they eat what they can get to eat.
Sometimes people don't have viable choices and there is a point to sugar addiction, a legal, cheap, and readily available substance.