The Low Budget Wonder

This weeks feature ingredient is Ramen Noodles. OK before you turn up your nose and think wait am I back in college? hear me out. We have had a little money crunch this month and have had to get creative with whats for dinner, I was running out of ideas and was looking at the box of Ramen from Sam's and was thinking Mike would kill me if I actually fixed that for dinner. So I did a little research on my favorite recipe site food.com and found a few recipes that Were tried and tested not only by me but by my husband who hates ramen and I was given a thumbs up! So try if you want to but if you find yourself in a crunch these were really good!



Ramen Noodle Casserole


1 pound of ground beef


1 medium onion, diced


1 (14 1/2 ounce) can of diced tomatoes


3 (3 oz) packages of beef flavored ramen- I actually used chicken flavored because that is what we had and it tasted wonderful so if you don't have beef I'm sure any flavor will do


3 cups of water


Shredded Cheese (one to two cups)





Brown hamburger and onion, then add flavoring packets from ramen noodles and simmer for about 4 minutes.


Add the water and the tomatoes and bring to a boil


Then add ramen noodles and cook for about 4 minutes more


Pour into a casserole dish, sprayed or greased first, and cover with shredded cheese


Bake for about 15 minute3s or until cheese melts

Creamy Ramen Noodles

1 (3oz) package of ramen noodles, any flavor with seasoning packet

2 cups of water

2 tablespoons of butter

1/4 cup of milk

Bring water to a boil, add dried noodles and cook for 3 minutes or until noodles are tender, Stir occasionally. Drain water away, Return noodles to pan. Add butter and contents of seasoning packet. Add as much of the seasoning packet that you want ( I used the whole thing). Heat on low heat and stir until butter is melted and noodles are coated with creamy sauce.