Eating meat is what you want to eat. It is understood that your family can't afford meat. So this sentence is a bit helpless, and it also means that there is no condition to eat meat. From the Shanghai nursery rhyme "DuDu DuDu, Selling Sugar Porridge". The full text is: Benedict, selling sugar porridge, three pounds of walnuts and four pounds of shells, eating meat and shells, Uncle Zhang, coming back in the Ming Dynasty. "Eat the meat from nuts" means "eat the meat from your walnuts". Shanghai nursery rhymes are short poems for children, which emphasize meter and rhyme, and are usually passed down orally.