Hey that sort of diet got me through university and freed up funds for that other important calorie source : beer.
You can actually live on that type of diet for a little while when you're young and eager. There are far worse things for you to do.
You can actually live on that type of diet for a little while when you're young and eager. There are far worse things for you to do.
If you need to buy cheap food for a while, ramen is not the answer. Finding ingredients at the grocery store and cooking them up yourself is the answer. I suspect that if you really want ramen, you can make it cheaper yourself. And more healthily ().
() Except for the salt levels.
Good food is, unfortunately, highly debatable. Organic or non-organic - I'd still have to suggest that starting with any fruits and vegetables, for example, would be a huge step up in the diet!
As a med student, I have to agree - cooking yourself ends up teaching people more about the food they eat than almost any prepared/prepacked food.
And yes, ramen is also possible to make from a bag of flour, salt, baking soda, and water. No palm fat, no other stuff. Just takes a bit of skill in putting together the soup...
I never, ever ate junk food simply because the cost wasn't worth it. Unless I happened across some great pizza coupons, then I would be all over that.
So while I ate a lot, it wasn't the only source of diet, to be fair. And I used to put in a big knob of butter, and specialised in the curry flavours. That makes it taste a lot better.