Listen up all you noodle-heads, you Ramen connoisseurs, the guys over at OnlineColleges.net have posted a humongous list of 100 Awesome Ramen Recipes for Starving College Students. This list is one of the most complete lists for anti-budget busters like you guys. Recycle this list three times and you can each super cheap every day of the year!

Whether you’re vegetarian, carnivore, Kosher, or just in the mood for some noodles this list has it all. Here are a few great picks.

Vegetarian

Vegetarians will enjoy these recipes that use mushrooms, mixed veggies, soy sauce, tofu, cheese and tomato sauce as toppers.

1. Ultra Cheese Ramen Noodles: If you’re in the mood for something really cheesy, make this recipe.

2. Spicy Ramen Explosion: Add cilantro, chili ramen, garlic powder and cayenne for a spicy snack.

3. Vegan Ramen and Rotel: Add nutritional yeast and Rotel to your ramen.

4. Parmesan Ramen: Top any flavor of ramen noodles with parmesan cheese.

5. Ramen Noodle Alfredo: You’ll add margarine, light cream, seasoning and parmesan cheese to ramen noodles.

Beef and Chicken

From stir fries to fancy French dishes, these ramen recipes use beef and chicken.

1. Lo Mein Ramen: You can make lo mein with ramen noodles for an easy meal.

2. Ramen beef pie: This ramen recipe is a twist on shepherd’s pie.

3. Sweet and Spicy Coke Ramen: Use Texas beef, 1/2 can of coke, salted peanuts and beef jerky.

4. Taco Ramen Salad: Make a yummy taco salad with ground beef, tomato, onion and cheddar cheese.

5. Chinese Doodles: Add Grand’s flaky biscuits to this recipe for a fulfilling meal.

Seafood

When you’ve got a little extra to spend, try making these seafood ramen recipes to impress your roommates or a date.

1. Ramen Shrimp Pouch: Add dried mushrooms, raw shrimp, scallions and seasoning.

2. Sesame Shrimp Ramen: This recipe makes a big bowl of sesame shrimp and veggies.

3. Quick Shrimp Ramen: If you want shrimp, make this quick and easy recipe.

4. Zesty Ramen Tuna: Add Zesty Italian dressing and Old Bay Seasoning for extra taste.

5. Tuna Ramen Surprise: This recipe is also great for camping.

Snacks

When you’re hungry between meals, try making ramen trail mix, ramen tacos, or ramen snacks modeled after Girl Scout treats.

1. Trail mix: Mixed with dried fruit and almonds.

2. After-School Ramen Snack: Mix your ramen with hot sauce, shredded cheese, and tomato soup.

3. Manwich: Use Texas beef ramen, French dressing, mayo, egg yolks, hot sauce, bologna and bread for a mega sandwich.

4. Hella Broke Ramen Tacos: These easy-to-make tacos are also super cheap.

5. Girl Scout Thin Mint Ramen on a Stick: This recipe is also called Ramen Cookie Bouquet.

Parties and Holidays

Ramen is a great party food, too, and these recipes prove it. Pair ramen with Doritos, pumpkin, ham and eggs or sausage for the next tailgate or holiday party.

1. Ramen with Beef on Mini Pumpkin: Halve a mini pumpkin and layer ramen and beef, plus chives and other seasonings.

2. Ham ramen frittata: Use beaten eggs, melted butter, scallions, deli ham and 3 packages of ramen for this recipe.

3. Ramen and salsa: This low maintenance snack just requires you to break off a chunk of ramen and dip it into salsa.

4. World Series Ramen: Make baseball-themed ramen with smoked sausage, sauerkraut, chopped onions and green peppers, and relish.

5. Post Thanksgiving Fried Ramen: Use leftover stuffing and turkey that your mom sends back to school with you for this recipe.

Soup and Salad

Make simple dishes heartier when you use ramen for soup and salads.

1. Ramen vegetable soup: Make a cup of hot ramen soup with carrots, turnips, celery, garlic, and onions.

2. Summer Ramen Salad: This is a refreshing salad made with alfalfa sprouts, peas and French dressing.

3. Sopa Mexicana de Ramen: Add taco seasoning and chicken broth to make this Mexican-style soup.

4. Zucchini Ramen Salad: You’ll use basil, oregano, vinegar, olives, carrots, zucchini and ramen for this salad.

5. Greek Ramen Salad: Make your Greek salad with ramen to turn it into a whole meal.

Comfort Food

From ham and cheese ramen to fried ramen and eggs, these comfort food recipes will keep you happy and warm during exam season.

1. Ham and Cheese Ramen: For a study break, make ham and cheese ramen.

2. Divorced and Homeless Ramen: Make this crazy recipe when you’re in the middle of finals. Includes chili-flavor ramen and creamy peanut butter.

3. Fried Ramen and Eggs: Add ramen to your normal fried eggs recipe.

4. Chili Ramen: You can use ground beef or turkey to make this chili recipe with ramen.

5. Fat Kid’s Ramen: All you need is tomato sauce, garlic salt, lemon pepper and 2 hot dogs, plus ramen.

Miscellaneous

Here you’ll find more ways to use ramen, in desserts, breakfast foods and more.

1. Breakfast soup: Cook an egg with boiling ramen for breakfast soup.

2. Chocolate ramen: This rich dessert uses brown sugar, vanilla, chocolate syrup, powdered sugar and whipped cream.

3. Top Ramen Breakfast Burritos: Another good hangover food is this breakfast burrito, made with ramen.

4. Spam Supreme: Mix Spam and ramen for an ultra budget meal.

5. Jello Ramen Noodles: This recipe might be better for a dare rather than an actual snack.

Do you have a favorite Ramen recipe that didn’t make the cut? Share it in the comments!

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Who doesn’t want to easily keep their blanket covering themselves and still have their hands free to do stuff? I do, I’ve already ordered mine from another deal. Should be here any day free. But if you missed the freebie hang in there until Thanksgiving day and stop by Walgreen’s. Rumor has it they will be on sale for $7.49 on Thanksgiving day only and will print $2 register reward.

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to use up or roll those register rewards that have been piling up. Maybe Christmas gifts?

I know you want one *wink*.

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Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. The weather is perfect and small children dress up as vampires, witches, and werewolves to knock on your door and ask for candy. Halloween parties abound with events like bobbing for apples, and my absolute favorite, haunted houses! The Spooky Spokes Halloween Hayride is also a great Halloween festivity that makes me look forward to the coming Halloween celebrations. Halloween can be a lot of fun for the entire family. Great ideas like wizard parties and Halloween costumes from Harry Potter and Disney add even more fun to the festivities. With Halloween just around the corner and fast approaching, now is a great time to purchase your costume.

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This week there were tons of posts related to saving money on groceries and lowering food costs. Here are a few great pieces I found in my reader this week…

How To Spot a Great Price on Meat From $5 Dinners

10 Simple Freezer Tricks to Save Time and Money from Lifehacker

Safeway’s New Everyday Low Prices Program & Chance to win $1000 from Saving Cents with Sense

Deals on Brand Name Groceries and Coupons from Bargain Babe

20 Ways to Slash Your Grocery Bill and Still Eat Great from Zillarx

What did I miss? Did you find a great article along the same lines? Link it in the coments!

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There is simply no better time to be thinking about saving money and it’s something we all should be striving to do, but what are the best ways to save money?

Don’t Buy ‘Designer Clothes’
Although the celebrities endorse them, try not to buy too many designer clothes. You may only wear the outfit once, which means that the $150 you spent has been more or less wasted. You would get better value for money buying a $30 outfit and if you only wear it once, its not such a big deal.

Create A Shopping List
By creating your own shopping list, you will be able to save yourself a lot of money over the course of the year.

Go through your cupboards before you go shopping and write down exactly what you need – and nothing more. Keep your list with you when you’re shopping, and stick by it. By buying exactly what you need, you will avoid wasting things and overspending.

Shop at Your Local Market
Supermarkets may be convenient and have a lot of choice, but did you know that your local market is probably cheaper for fresh produce? Buying your fruit and vegetables from your local market could save you hundreds of pounds – and you’ll be supporting a local business.

Sell Your Old Things on The Internet
If your house is cluttered and you no longer need your old stuff, then sell it online! Even if you make just a few dollars on each item, it’s better than making nothing by throwing it away. Remember – one mans junk is another mans treasure.

Switch Your Gas/Electricity Supplier
By switching your gas/electricity supplier, you could save hundreds a year. There a plenty of switching sites available online, and many of them operate for free and take a small commission off the supplier when someone switches via them.

Say ‘No’
Learn to say ‘no’. This is one of the hardest things to do, especially when you really want something. For example, if you are looking for a new TV and see one you really like, but it costs $1500 – and you only have $600 in the bank, then just walk away. Don’t be tempted to put it on the credit card, as the interest could cost you a lot of money.

Walk to Work
Something as simple as walking to work could save you hundreds of dollars a year. If you work too far away to walk – ask if anyone would be interested in sharing lifts with you.

Cancel Your Gym Membership
Your gym membership is a luxury that you may not even use. Why not run around the block? Or run round the local park? Join a free sports club…there are so many ways to keep fit for free. If you feel you need to use the gym occasionally most will let you pay per session anyway.

Pay off Your Outstanding Unsecured Debts
If you have outstanding unsecured debts, try to pay these off as soon as possible. The sooner you clear them, the less interest they can gather and the cheaper they will be to clear! (For more debt information visit http://www.debtadvisersdirect.co.uk/)

Create a Strict Budget
Create a strict budget and stick to it! This should help you keep in control of your finances. You may be able to highlight areas where you are ‘overspending’ – in other words, areas where you can cut back and save money.

There is no hiding the fact that to save a little bit of money you will need to put in some effort and stay on top of you finances. The benefits are substantial though, not only does saving money help your cash flow, being in control gives you a nice feel good factor.

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PaperBackSwap is a free online book exchange service. You create an account on the site and create a list of any books you’re looking to swap. Books are swapped through snail mail. The magic number is nine, list nine books and the site gives you three credits to “buy” books that other people have listed.

What Do I Do With a Credit?

Credits are freebies on shipping. Once you list nine books you’re willing to swap, you receive three credits. You can then search the site for a book you’re interested in and use the credit to “buy” it. Once you receive the book in the mail you go online and mark it as received. The person who sent the book then receives a credit and they can “buy” a used book of their choice.

You get a credit each time someone receives a book that they have requested from your list and the cycle goes on and on.

Check it out!

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If you are having the same issue with motivation this should help. This woman seriously saves hundreds of dollars at the grocery store with couponing and refunding.

I thought I was good, she puts me to shame!

I don’t know about you guys but I am motivated all over again to clip that stack of inserts that’s been waiting for me for the last month!

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I’m getting ready to start my fall garden and instead of buying pots or containers for starting my seedlings, I’ve decided to investigate making paper pots out of old newspaper. Save money and recycle with this great project!

After you pull out the coupons and circulars from your Sunday newspaper, make sure you save the rest. The paper is folded around an object to create the shape of a pot. Fill the pots with soil and add your seeds. Keep them in a tupperwear or box and cover with celophane to keep in the moisture and keep out any investigative pets. My cats are going nuts trying to figure out what’s in that box!

Check out this video and learn how to fold your own pots!

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Today I’m at home sick with either a cold or allergies…either way I can’t breath but my nose is running and I feel like a garden gnome is having a rave in my head…as if Monday’s weren’t bad enough right. I do get to catch up with my Google Reader, and the never ending feeds that always pile up as I have no time to get to them. The bright side.

Pursuing my personal finance feed I ran across a great article about 9 Money Saving Reasons to Buy a Food Dehydrator by Alex Wayne from WiseBread. Great article outlining the various ways you can save money on food by using a food dehydrator. Including making beef jerky and potpourri at home. Check out Alex’s site DehydratorBook for more great ideas!

While reading about ways to save money using a food dehydrator, I started to wonder what other kitchen appliances out there saved money and here is what I found…

Food Saver
You’ve undoubtedly seen the infomercials for this one. Thefood saver is a cool contraption that shrink wraps leftovers and whole dishes to be safely saved for later. This can save tons of money by saving leftovers that you may not want to eat the same week. Just zip em up in the food saver and you can freeze them without worry of freezer burn for months and months!

Crock Pot
Crock pots or slow cookers are awesome! I use mine at least once a week so I don’t feel like I have to cook. If you lead a busy lifestyle with a hectic schedule this is the perfect dual purpose appliance for you! Heh, I sound like Billy Mays, RIP.

Just defrost you meats the night before in the fridge, then add all your ingredients to your crock pot in the morning before you set out for the day and by the time you get home you’ve got a warm ready meal already finished and waiting for you. I love to make soups, stews, roasts, chilis, chicken dishes, ribs, and even macaroni and cheese!

Always freeze those leftovers for a great meal on another night or revamp the leftovers into a brand new dish.

Coffee Maker

Skip Starbucks! Yup, I said it. Don’t even settle for McCafe either. The biggest money waster in society today is take out coffee! Not mention all those plastic, paper, and styrofoam cups end up in the trash and later the landfills.

Spend the equivalent of one Starbucks coffee on a whole weeks worth of brewed at home coffee. Shoot, invest in an espresso machine if you really need that double shot!

Bread Machine

Here we go again with the processed, pre-made item we can easily make at home. Pre-made bread in the grocery store costs anywhere from $.99-$6.00/loaf. You name make a dozen loaves at home for that much money and you can ad any ingredients you want! Make all the artesian breads you want, you can even go gluten free or low carb.

Try jalapeño and cheese, garlic herb, cinnamon raisin, cranberry, even made desert breads like zucchini,carrot, and spice!

Rice Cooker

Just like popcorn, beans, and grains, rice is cheapest in it’s raw form. Use a rice cooker and get the same fluffy rice you get with the instant stuff for just pennies!

Popcorn Maker

Orville Redenbacher is $3-4 a box, but a bag of raw popcorn is $1 or less a bag. You can even buy raw popcorn in bulk at the health food store or the heal food section of the grocery store. If you’re into popcorn or watching your fat intake this is a great option.

You can even cheat and take a bag to the movie theater to save on concessions…sshh, don’t tell anyone I told you!

Freezer

The freezer is my best tool. I often freeze my huge couponing hauls and keep stocked up all year on items like meets, cheeses, butter, Pillsbury rolls, frozen veggies, frozen fruits, ice cream, pizzas, you name it I have found it cheap or free and popped it in the freezer!

Rotisserie

Think about it, how often do you see a sale for whole fryer chickens on sale for $.79/lb vs the $5.00 ready made rotisserie chickens? How much does the rotisserie chicken at Boston Market go for? If you’ve got a store coupon on top of a dynamite sale like this then it’s likely you know how play this game and your freezer is already stocked with whole chickens. I know I’ve already got a couple!

Like everything else, save money by making restaurant quality food at home! Simple and fast, Just skewer a whole chicken on the spit, season with a little seasoned salt and poultry seasoning and let the rotisserie do the work.

What did I miss? How do you save money in the kitchen?

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I’m on the hunt for cheap eats and nothing in the land of groceries is cheaper then Ramen Noodles. I decided to fool around with the noodles common to so many college students (I know I had my fill during my four years) and see if I could make something delicious out of them.

Photo Credit: www.recipesroom.com

Let me know what you think!

Ingredients

• One head green cabbage
• One head purple cabbage
• Garlic salt
• Toasted slivered almonds
• Toasted sesame seeds
• Six green onions
• 1/2 cup Seasoned Rice Wine Vinegar
• 1/2 cup oil
• Three packages of Ramen Noodles

Break up the Ramen Noodles and dice the green onions and set them aside then slice the cabbage into thin strips and place them in a large bowl. Toss the cabbage with garlic salt (you can definitely use fresh garlic if you prefer). Add the sesame seeds, slivered almonds, scallions, and broken up Ramen Noodles. Combine the oil and vinegar, mix together with the salad and place in the fridge to chill (optional).

Before serving add a few more broken Ramen Noodles on top to add a little crunch and enjoy!

Note: Mandarin orange or purple grape slices have

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