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The Greek word that is translated as daily (τὸν ἐπιούσιον) is only used in Matthew 6:11 and in the parallel in Luke 11:3. The rendering of this as daily bread is to me suspect. A truer rendering is found in the Vulgate where it was translated as panis super substantialis. So instead of bread for daily subsistence, earthly bread, it is bettter translated as supernatural bread or bread for daily essence, where essence to Jesus was our putting aside the earthly and taking up the heavenly.
That is the traditional opinion of most churches founded on the English language, since they only look as far as the English translation as "daily bread" and want to discourage daily Communion. But if you look at the Greek, you realize that Jesus uttered a word that is not recorded anywhere in ancient Greek texts and is only used once in the Bible (assuming that Luke merely copied Matthew). So the meaning must be derived from the parts of the Greek word transliterated as epiousios, which can be split into the roots epi - ousios. Now the ousios is the same root as is used in the Nicene Creed in homo - ousios to mean "of the same essence or substance". Ousios is normally translated to refer to the essence of the thing. Epi can be translated in several ways based on the word after it. So for epidermis we translate it to mean "above" the dermis. For epilogue it means "after" the end. For epicenter, is means "upon" the center. In all of these possible translations, it is hard to conceive of one that could lead you to translate epiousios as meaning daily food, since it is referring to essence and not time. Also that translation is redundant, since the line starts with "Give us today". I feel a better translation is what was rendered by Jerome as super-substantial or super-essential in Matthew and daily - quotidian in Luke. This highlights more effectively our need to ask for super essential sustenance (God given and not hand made) daily. I know this is a debatable topic; but what I am doing is based on the literal meaning of the original text and not on a metaphor.
"The best rule of sobriety is, not only in learning to follow wherever God leads, but also when he makes an end of teaching, to cease also from wishing to be wise." ~ John Calvin
