I want some recipies for a ramen noodle everynight budget!

[EDW39A]

I would suggest off-brand pasta, beans, rice, and oats and eggs. I can sometimes find potatoes quite cheap (3.99 for a 5 pound bag). Ramen noodles are not actually that cheap. Although you can find them for 20 cents a package you are not getting any nutritional value at all. Plus basic ingredients like pasta, beans, rice, flour, oats, and eggs can be just as cheap if you buy them off-brand, in bulk, and don't eat more than you need. Prepared foods will never be cheaper then basic ingredients, and so prepared foods will always find some way to cheat you. They may seem like a good deal, but this is really just an illusion.

You sure correct about that. I usually buy ramen noodles in bulk, when they are on sale as well, and use them because they are fast to cook. But other noodles I buy in bulk at our East/West store, much cheaper than our Shoprite or Whole Foods. Oats and other cereals are cheaper if you buy the store brand. And purchase things on sale if you can.

[Flackle]

I would suggest off-brand pasta, beans, rice, and oats and eggs. I can sometimes find potatoes quite cheap (3.99 for a 5 pound bag). Ramen noodles are not actually that cheap. Although you can find them for 20 cents a package you are not getting any nutritional value at all. Plus basic ingredients like pasta, beans, rice, flour, oats, and eggs can be just as cheap if you buy them off-brand, in bulk, and don't eat more than you need. Prepared foods will never be cheaper then basic ingredients, and so prepared foods will always find some way to cheat you. They may seem like a good deal, but this is really just an illusion.

You sure correct about that. I usually buy ramen noodles in bulk, when they are on sale as well, and use them because they are fast to cook. But other noodles I buy in bulk at our East/West store, much cheaper than our Shoprite or Whole Foods. Oats and other cereals are cheaper if you buy the store brand. And purchase things on sale if you can.

Knowing how to cook is a very useful skill. Ramen noodles are fine if you want a quick meal, but their nutritional value is paramount to chips or fried french fries (Most instant ramen noodles are pre-fried). I would also recommend adding vegetables and an occasional canned salmon (Both for nutritional reasons, and because I would go mad if all I had to eat was beans and rice for a week straight.)

[EDW39A]

"...but their nutritional value is paramount to chips or fried french fries.." Wow do you think they are that healthy, lol! The "Chinese" guy who invented them, fried them for instant noodles. Cooking was a required skill growing up, my mother had us in the kitchen at five or six. We had to learn to peel things like carrots, etc. So all of my siblings cook. My youngest brother makes the best tasting cookies. My father started eating those noodles back in the late 50's when he was stationed in Japan. And my brother told me the Koreans (South Koreans) eat more of them then anyone else in the world. I may try to make some. I make my own egg rolls. You could get by on those beans much longer than a week if you needed to or had a need. In the old west that is what ranch hands ate. It kept them pretty strong and lean for the work they did. (Sorry all over with this paragraph it would give a writer or an English teacher fits.)

[oonamas]

it can be a healthy food if you let it be one.

Aren't ramen noodles covered in some kind of chemical so that they don't stick together when you boil them that causes cancer? It would be great if this thread was looking for healthy recipes on a ramen noodle BUDGET, instead of just looking for creative recipes using ramen noodles.

[ancmetro]

   
        Here is another recipe for people who do not like any meat in their food. What about nuts? Yes, nuts! Chopped or whole: peanuts, cashews, walnuts, almonds...or any other type.

[EDW39A]

it can be a healthy food if you let it be one.

Aren't ramen noodles covered in some kind of chemical so that they don't stick together when you boil them that causes cancer? It would be great if this thread was looking for healthy recipes on a ramen noodle BUDGET, instead of just looking for creative recipes using ramen noodles.

People buy ramen noodles because the are perceived to be low cost. A better reason would be convenience. Instant ramen is not really healthy. Healthy and cheaper would be other noodles, not instant ones. The instant ones are instant because they are FRIED (they don't need anything on them, they have the oil they are fried in.)  (The noodles in the "plastic cup may cause cancer.") To make things worse, they (instant ramen) are high in  fat, sodium and have monosodium glutamate (MSG), preservatives and other (many like TBHQ, read a pack one day) ingredients, like "potassium carbonate", etc. If you make them at home, you need wheat flour, salt, water, and kansui (alkaline mineral water, containing basically sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate) or you can skip the kansui, use eggs or skip both. You can make them healthier eat less, and add vegetables, don't use the full "flavor package" add, powdered garlic, powered ginger (fresh if you have the time) or miso if you like.

[lacdog47]

 I put crunched up potatoe chlps,tuna,cheese, crunched up hot pickles and a little hot sauce. I call it a break, and boy! is it good eating!

[kapeh12]

I you are ambitious, you may want to consider making your own noodles.  I found a site someone put together about how to make your own pulled noodles.  It has recipes and videos of how to do it.  Been wanting to try it out myself, but just haven't had the time yet.  This might be cheaper and healthier than buying ramen noodles.  I recently started making my own wheat bread, and I've been spending way less on bread since I did that - that's part of why I want to try making my own noodles.

Here's the site:  http://www.lukerymarz.com/noodles/index.html

[EDW39A]

I you are ambitious, you may want to consider making your own noodles.  I found a site someone put together about how to make your own pulled noodles.  It has recipes and videos of how to do it.  Been wanting to try it out myself, but just haven't had the time yet.  This might be cheaper and healthier than buying ramen noodles.  I recently started making my own wheat bread, and I've been spending way less on bread since I did that - that's part of why I want to try making my own noodles.

Here's the site:  http://www.lukerymarz.com/noodles/index.html

Hey thank you that site has a lot of good information. Since you like making noodles! Question is it just the "ramen" and "udo" you like? I love the "fun" (Chinese rice noodles) noodles too. And if you like soba, make your own soba noodles, eight parts buckwheat (healthier) flour with two parts white flour.

[Paulinha]

Good receipE. It sounds good

[mjdoug03]

I've never heard of doing anything with ramen noodles before.  Just watch your salt content because it seems a little high!

[EDW39A]

There is so much to do with them. Did you read all the comments offered so far?

[kountrypeach80]

Beef ramen noodles can chili and honey bbq fritos topped with cheese and jalepeno pepper

[cwillard1]

Yeah I found out the hard way they were not healthy.  I never read the packet.  WOW was I surprised when my Blood pressure shot up and I was retaining alot of fluid.  SODIUM wow large amounts.   I would try the peoples suggestion of making your own noodles.