$100 a week grocery bill

Okay, my husband and I fight all the time over money.  We have very different approaches to creating and maintaining a budget.  We also have very different ideas about what is the most important thing to spend our money on.  We come  from the complete opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to our concepts of money.  For him, I believe, spending money is actually physically painful.  I read an article once in the NY Times about the difference between cheap skates and the rest of us.  To cheap skates spending money releases a chemical in the brain that actually makes it painful for them.  They can't help it.  It is part of their physiology.  Now, I am exaggerating a wee bit.  My husband just feels that it is VERY important not to be in debt and to have 3 months pay saved up in the bank.  I think that is a great idea and theoretically I agree.  However, I like to LIVE while I live.  To me, while it is important to stay within your means, money is money.  It comes.  It goes.  But it is never worth the heartache we allow it to cause.  See now the formula for some knock down, drag out fights on the money front.
Through our almost 8 years of marriage, we have both floated a little more towards the middle.  I realize that because of my husband, I will most likely have a retirement.  And I try to tell him, that because of me, he should have some sweet ass memories to think back on.  He quite hasn't seen that point yet.  Go figure!  Just to give an idea about how different we are I will tell you about our grocery battle when we first got married.
Selah was 2 months old.  Zoe was 2 years old.  And Robert had just found out that he had been let go of his teaching job (the circumstances of which I will delve into later because it is a sinister tale of deceit, betrayal, and the untimely death of the boss....okay the last part is not true, but I did wish it for awhile).  He had found a job that he was supposed to be making good money at in sales, but ended up only making $1300 a month.  We had some money in the bank, but that didn't matter to Robert.  He said that needed to be saved for an emergency.  In my head I was thinking, isn't this the emergency?  So he gave me a budget of $100 a week for groceries and that was to include diapers, toilet paper, and other household products.  OMG!   Okay is anyone else there thinking what I was thinking?  WTH!?  So needless to say, I ignored the budget.
So thus our first arguments over money started.  Being sleep deprived, I suggested that he take over the grocery shopping.  ummmm...yeah.  My man came home with the biggest can of beans I had ever seen and a huge bag of rice.  I laughed so hard until I realized that he was dead serious and that is what he expected us to eat for the week. I was and am still very adamant about fresh fruits and vegies being plentiful in our house.  Can you see where this might cause a conflict of interest?
It is now 8 years later and we are still having the same argument. I keep thinking that the fact that I am a good cook and hook him up on a daily basis should sink in at some point, but then I remember the research and that he can't help it.  I have gotten a little bit more sophisticated and I make our bread and have very little processed food in our house.  I am venturing out and trying making homemade yogurt.  It is right now, at this moment, incubating and I will let you know how it turns out. I am seeing how making things from scratch is not only better for you and tastes better, but is a lot cheaper.  So now that he has chilled out ......a little...about the grocery bill (mainly because I am staying in a reasonable budget) I have decided to challenge myself and see if I can feed my family food that is nourishing for both the body and soul for $100 a week.  I will blog about it and let you know how it is going.
ps  I just made a flaxseed sunflower seed bread that is pretty awesome.  I will post the recipe later.
xoxox