Required to make your own food everyday are both physical and mental abilities. Low-income Americans are certainly more than physically capable of putting together three meals per day, but they may lack the motivation, inspiration, knowledge, or skill required to do so. I certainly needed my sous-chef best friend living with me and teaching me the virtues of cooking for 3 months to really get the skills and habits down.
This is not something to argue about. The best you can do is empower people, so stop arguing on discussion forums – go forth and empower!
We're not talking Roman slaves here. "Work 'til you drop or we'll kill you" isn't at issue.
A poor person in rural India really is poor. Under $2/day income (world median) is poor. My sympathies and help.
Blaming the social structures WE live in, no. Assistance, tools, opportunities, etc are prolific; if you're not using them, it's not because they're not available to you.
Yes I'm leaning on the "if someone doesn't do it they don't really want to" trope. That's largely the POINT in this thread, as pointed out by others too. I just see far too much "golly, going to Walmart and buying beef/beans/sauce/seasoning for $5 and cooking it for 10 minutes to feed 4 is just too hard", which a poor rural Indian or a Roman slave would look on at with sheer astonishment.