Can a family of 8 live on $300 mon groceries?

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Sure if you're eating just ramen, bread and peanut butter.  I cant even get my groceries below $500/month for 4 ppl

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Only with extreme difficulty and a lot of staple foods (beans, potatoes, and rice jump to mind immediately) and essentially no snacks or processed foods that'll jack up the monthly costs. Fast food isn't even really an option, unless there's a hella deal.
I grew up in poverty, it was not fun, but somehow people find ways to survive. If you can avoid this situation I would try. If you can't, pinch pennies and any extra grocery money should go towards high-nutrient foods (fruit and vegetables, either in-season fresh or frozen) to eat with staple starches and protein (the aforementioned beans/potatoes/rice).
Best of luck.

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Lmao my family of 4 goes through like $800 of groceries in a month
How the even 😅

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Family of 6 usually spending 1000 a month. Now that is not with doing a lot of couponing and price matching and that sort of thing so if we put more effort into it I'm sure we could cut down, but it would be impossible for us to get to 300. I dont even think we could get below 600. 
Also 2 of us have food allergies (milk egg and wheat) so buying the gluten free bread (2-3× the price and half the size) and other 'special' foods adds a LOT.

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My family of 4 spends about $200 a month on groceries. I shop solely at aldi. I do get wic, but without wic the total wouldn’t even be $300 a month. I cook from scratch every dinner. Breakfast is cereal or something simple. Lunch is a sandwich, leftovers, etc. it’s very doable. If the 4 of us can do it on 200-300 then a family of 8 should surely be able to keep it under 800. But it does all depend on where you buy your groceries.

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Not unless they get alot of fast food, which would wreak even more havoc on a budget so that wouldn't make sense. My family of 3 (one of which is a toddler) uses about $300-$400 worth of grocery in a month and we get fast food about once per week

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We’re only a family of 3 (going on 4, currently pregnant) and I get $207/month in calfresh benefits and that’s what we spend a month for food and it’s enough for us to get all the basics we need (meat, bread, fruits, veggies, etc) and have enough for some snacky stuff too. But for a family of 8, I would think closer to $500 would need to be your minimum for groceries. My partner comes from a family of 10 (parents and 8 children), and they always spent between $600-700 a month on food and that was still buying very cheap staples to stock the house because 6 of the children were boys.

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Eat, yes. Eat nutritiously... only with a lot of labour (big garden, your own chickens, etc)

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I hear people who are really good at couponing spend like $50 on $200 worth of groceries. So yeah, probably possible 👍🏻

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Yes if you use your money very very wisely. Where I'm from we have a food donation place called Ruby's pantry where you go and pay 10 dollars and they give you tons of food. You don't get to pick what you get but you always get a lot of food. Every Saturday it's in a different city so you could go every weekend and then you'd just need to buy a few things from the store that you didn't get from Ruby's pantry.

Can a family of 8 live on $300 mon groceries?

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