Wait a minute. I'm at the poverty line, in a studio apartment that's less than $600/month including electricity. I don't own a car, I ride a bicycle. I'm vegan and much of my food consists of dried beans, and I'm at like $50/day everything included - one person.
Unless your family is in a $200/month apartment and you only eat raman noodles, impossible.
Well, my and my mother (pensioner) live in a 3 bedroom house, cellar and attic, front garden, patio garden and back garden, brick shed. She receives old age pension (about 1150 dollars a month) and because I am handicapped I have disability income of about 1350 dollars a month.
I own a car, eat meat about 6 times a week (for dinner). Today I had terriyaki (ground meat beef/pork, 2 bags of Japanese vegetables and rice), today I will most likely eat poached pears with a meatball and baked potatoes, tomorrow most likely boneless pork chips with brussel sprouts (stir fried with some bacon bits) and boiled potatoes, Wednesday the remainder of the terriyaki, thursday most likely will be chips with 2 or 3 snacks (dutch style), Friday will most likely be meat with reifenkuchen (German potato dish with onions) and apple sauce. This weekend I am hoping to make some Indian food with chicken and hutspot (1kg of onions/carrots and 1 kg of potatoes that are then boiled for about 20 minutes and then mashed) with rookworst (special smoked sausage) one day and the next porkbelly.
Veggies we eat on a regular basis are cauliflower, spinach, endive, lettuce, cucumber, brussels sprouts, carrots, string beans, regular beans, beets, peas etc.
Special meals are when we make minostrone soup (Italian soup with pasta, potato, loads of veggies, sausage, ground pork/beef, tomato paste), Dutch style pea soup, bahmi, babi pangang, macaroni, spaghetti, and many more delicious things like Chili Con Carne.
And then of course we have bread. Often I bake my own with ready made mixes where I only add the water/milk/butter or I just go down to the supermarket and buy some bread. I mostly eat meat on my bread. Ham is a favorite, salami, chicken but also stuff like roast beef, meatloaf, chicken curry salad and when I put sweet on my bread it is mostly peanut butter.