. "That has to cover the rent, utilities, gas, insurance, food and other expenses.???If you start putting those numbers to paper, you really realize pretty quickly how impossible it is for a family to survive on that kind of money,??? Gassen says.When faced with that challenge, the budget must be cut and the easiest and first place to do so is with food.???We can get by with one less meal,??? he says" . . . . .