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Cup Noodles (and more generally instant noodles) is easily one of the most important inventions ever.

It's cheap, it's nutritious, it stores well (and easily), it ships easily (read: cheaply), and it prepares simply and quickly. Most importantly, it's delicious.

I know of no other food that checks all these boxes and then some.

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Cheese, Hard Tack, Jerkey, Pickles, Kimche, Beer, Salt Pork, Rum, Instant Soup, Pemican, Wine, Dried Beans, Honey, Grain, Potatoes, Tons of Canned foods lets say peaches, regular pasta, Nut butter... yeah I can think of a ton of them, and everything I listed is much more nutritious than instant noodles which basically has carbs, salt, potassium lots of fat, some protein.

Where can you get jerkey, wine or nut butter for less money than instant noodles? I'm not familiar with the pricing for everything listed, but if I can find those 3 for cup noodle prices, that would be awesome.

unless you're eating a jar of nut butter in one sitting, I'm pretty sure it's going to be cheaper by far on a per serving basis.

I'm not personally going for the cheapest most shelf stable food every as the core of my diet.

Also nut butter does looks similar on micro nutrients, about an oz is very similar to a cup of noodles. maybe not as filling. I don't find cup o noodles all that filling though.

I wasn't really going on price. Also note that you're at 48% daily sodium for 1 thing of nissan instant noodles which is 290 calories (1/6th daily intake of 1800) and 20% of nutritional value. I can get my own cider down to about $0.28/12 oz bottle. My point was more that there are many storable foods and have been for a long time that provide nutrition and variation. And other than the salt pork aren't loaded with salt.

As spike said "man cannot live on carbohydrates alone" :)

Also I personally feel like shit after eating cup o noodles even if they are good tasty and cheap.

>nissan instant noodles

Nissan makes cars.

Nissin makes cup noodles.

Nisshin makes flour.

cool, thank you for setting me straight, really added to the conversation. I'll make sure to file a bug to Google autocorrect so that such egregious errors are not made in important conversations in the future.

How many of those do better than a package of instant ramen noodles on a nutrient tracker like Cronometer? One pack gives you 20% of the day’s nutrients. You think pickles, honey, beer, and wine come close to that? You need to recalibrate your intuitions: cronometer.com

I don't want to sign up to the product you're advertising, but without doing that I can say that while some packets of ramen may give you 20% of your required daily calory intake, there are more required nutrients than calories. Probably none of the other listed foods can give you everything on their own.

Was with you until potatoes. They don't last nearly as long as the other items.

> It's cheap, it's nutritious, it stores well (and easily), it ships easily (read: cheaply), and it prepares simply and quickly. Most importantly, it's delicious.

To add a kind of oddball one, fried instant noodles are a great item to have a few of when camping -- not because you can eat them, but because in a pinch the noodles are pretty good firestarters, especially when you're having a hard time finding small pieces of dry wood. And you can use the seasoning packets as a source of at least some electrolytes in a pinch.

There's minimal nutritional value in ramen. It's basically flour and salt, not to mention all the preservatives they add to it. Living on ramen alone would leave you heavily deficient in proteins, vitamins and minerals (other than salt).

I've never eaten any cup noodles that I found delicious (and not for lack of trying). Apart from the spiciness (for the "hot" flavors), they are rather bland.

the newer ones containing MSG's MSG (IMP GMP) will give you gout so yeah like all things in life, moderation is key

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