Healthy Cheap recipes?/Things to do with Ramen?

Get whole wheat pasta instead of Ramen noodles....WAY healthier and you'll get several meals from one box. Frozen veggies are great to top the pasta and some inexpensive marinara sauce or just toss it with olive oil and a little parm.

Do you have an Aldi's grocery store near you? Check them out if you are near one. They also do price matches with walmart so if Aldi's produce looks a little gross, just take their flier over to walmart and but the produce there at a cheaper price.

You can get quinoa in bulk much cheaper than ramen noodles and it's so much healthier for you.

Ok well, I'm going to go against the grain here and not tell you ZOMG DONT BUY RAMEN. My dad makes what he calls "enhanced Ramen"...he puts a couple packets of noodles in the crock pot with some water and ONE of the seasoning packets, maybe some other seasonings too like dried parsley or onion flakes, and then dumps in a bag of frozen veggies (peas and carrots, for example) and then just cooks it until everything is cooked through. It's actually very good...tastes like chicken noodle soup. Just don't over-cook it.

Beans, rice, and tuna are all good cheap staples. And potatoes. Buy a Sunday paper and look at ads for your local stores...you can save some $$ by clipping coupons and shopping certain stores on certain weeks based on what's on sale. Good luck!

There's really one thing that's healthy for you to do with Ramen noodles... cook them in hot water, add a little seasoning, and then pour them down the drain and never think about ramen noodles for a healthy diet again.

If you have to use noodles then just use whole grain/whole wheat spaghetti noodles. At least this way you'll get some fiber and whole grains. Ramen noodles are garbage and I don't wish them upon my worst enemy.

The same can be said about Syntha-6 protein powder or muscle milk. There's really one thing that's good to do with those if you have them... pour them down the drain!

Ramen noodles are BAD. Way too much sodium and no nutritional value.
As someone else said, a big pot of Lentil soup is great! I make that regularly. Pretty much any soup can be healthy and cheap.
Or Casserole's as well.
Shop sales and look at what's in season. Then build your meals from that. The internet is a great place to find healthy, cheap and affordable recipes.

Ramen noodles are BAD. Way too much sodium and no nutritional value.
As someone else said, a big pot of Lentil soup is great! I make that regularly. Pretty much any soup can be healthy and cheap.
Or Casserole's as well.
Shop sales and look at what's in season. Then build your meals from that. The internet is a great place to find healthy, cheap and affordable recipes.

BTW, when i make Lentil soup it's a big old pot, costs about 5-6$ to make and my family of 5 can eat 3 dinners our of that. Super cheap

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/716023-what-are-the-healthiest-inexpensive-foods

Check out this thread.....and my response to them that might help you (below). Feel free to add me....we're broke and trying to make it just like everyone else. I can and will share recipes

-beans
-eggs
-frozen veggies (they're so much easier to just toss in with something like ramen noodles if you have to eat them) I also like to -make brown rice and veggies.
-if you have local farmer's markets, go there and use them. The prices are not always better, but when people want stuff to move they mark it down.
-buy in season. Watermelon in December is not cheap!
-rice
-low calorie drinks....if you cant get off the water, you can make your low calorie zero sugar drink mixes go further. My family prefers it when I add more water to the ones we have at home.
-Grocery store sales tend to run in cycles....pork one week, chicken the next, ground beef, ect. You need to learn to buy what is on sale. If you have the money, buy extra and freeze so you aren't running to the store and paying full price for something because you want it instead of what is on sale that week.
-grocery stores also tend to put stuff on sale with a theme. For example...the store closest to my house with have things like tortillas, salsa, beef, and cheese on sale all at once. Or every kind of noodles, pasta sauce, garlic bread, and ricotta cheese. If you can, buy the things that are on sale that you can incorporate into your own healthy recipes.
-take advantage of bogo sales....if your store offers free potatoes with the purchase of a roast and carrots...consider the deal and go for it. You don't have to use all the carrots or the potatoes...they can go towards another meal.
-crockpot....it is cheap cooking at it's finest.
-look for "manager specials". A store I used to work at used to sell porterhouse steaks for half the price after they'd been in the case for a few days. They weren't bad, being exposed to the air in the case and the lights make them look like there were on the way out....but they weren't.
-make your meat go further. I have a meat eater at home...a pound of hamburger for meatballs was enough for dinner for 2 and a giant lunch of leftovers for him (he's not trying to lose). Add breadcrumbs (buy or make your own) and an egg. Now a pound of burger turned into spaghetti and meatballs last 4-5 meals. There are recipes that encourage this...like porcupine meatballs (rice, meat, onion, garlic tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce and seasoning. Thats it!)
-google budget meals, and frugal living
-check local convenience stores. We have stores here that sell bread (on sale for .69 cents but can be up to $150 for white OR wheat), eggs (99 cents/dozen) bananas (.39), butter (on sale 1.99 for a pound), milk (sold in half gallon bags, 2 bags are .60 less than a gallon at the grocery store), onions(.39), and potatoes (.39) cheaper than any store in the area.
-coupons are great for things you are going to use. When you shop, compare prices and look for coupons on the package that are good right away!
-always check the discount produce bins, that aisle at walmart with discounted food and shop the sales. Go to multiple stores in the same area if you can do it fast and you get the best deal!
-meal planning is smart. Take the ad on Monday, plan the next week, go shopping Friday or saturday to get those deals. Repeat on monday...many times what wasn't on sale on Friday, will be on sale sunday. So you can pick up stuff on sale for the next week, and go back and get what wasnt on sale...if your brain can organize that.

rice and beans are very cheap and will fill you up.

No ramen! Get frozen veggies and fruits. Whole wheat pasta and bread. Make stirfry really quick healthy and cheap! More ideas here: http://ifiloseweight.com/e/grocery-list/