Just to echo a few others--frozen fruits and vegetables are a LIFESAVER for me! I am entirely too busy to go grocery shopping more than once a week (often, it's once every two weeks), so when I buy fresh produce, it goes bad way before I have a chance to use it. However, I have found that the frozen stuff, pound for pound, is no more expensive than the fresh. I buy frozen spinach, broccoli, diced onion, sugar snap peas, peaches, strawberries...my freezer is insanely full, but it's worth it!
On the ramen noodles--like Sarah said, try a huge thing of brown rice. When I was in college, my friend and I used to make our own ramen wannabe stuff by just cooking up some plain noodles or rice (which we did in a hot pot or microwave since we had no stove) and then adding boullion (sp?) cubes--still yummy, plus you cut out some of the sodium found in the ramen that can cause you to retain water. You could also try seasoning the plain rice or noodles yourself--I know I get all of my seasonings at the dollar store (Dollar Tree--onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, paprika, Italian seasoning, crushed red pepper, etc...), so they even fit into my college budget, plus a jar of seasoning seems to last forever--even if you use it every day, it'll be weeeeeks before you have to buy more!
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