[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Cheap, fast, and easy to cook! Gets you back to bed without too much time in the kitchen and your Chickens live to lay more eggs!

I have been using Sapphoro Ichiban origional "Chicken Flavor", Cheap 4 pack for about $5, with a smaller list of unpronounceable ingredients including various transfats, but have been exploring 2 ingredient Buckwheat Soba noodles for lunches lately and cooking them in something like Swanson Chicken broth. 3 or 4 pounds of noodles for perhaps $7. (At the store, NOT Amazon!)

Here is a good recipe link to a simple cold Soba Noodle recipe:

Serious eats, classic-cold-soba-recipe

They also provide links to other soba noodle recipes at the link.

(I did find a 12 pack of unflavored Buckwheat raman at Amazon under "Big Green Organic Food- Organic Buckwheat Ramen, 25.3oz, 100% buckwheat" for about $21 a bit pricey but its a Ramen with only 1 ingredient.)

Green Onions, Radishes, Turnips, Kale, Spinach, all things that can go into your Ramen, all easy to grow in the garden.

[Liz]

I have also used Sapphoro Ichiban ramen noodles——
w/ homemade peanut sauce.......they are delicious.

[Liz]

The cold “Soba Noodle” recipe is a must try........thx.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yum! Sliced Mushrooms. I add them to the boiling water before I put in the noodles and the ‘secret ingredient packet.’ ;)

[Paul R.]

I can’t get onions, green or otherwise, to grow worth a darn except in pots. (I don’t have any raised beds.)

BUT, I discovered while removing a bunch of small trees and bushes springing up in the ditch east of our house that there are spots alongside the ditch (our property side) with really good looking, loamy soil. There’s a little gravel in it too, but, not too bad. I think this is soil thrown to the (our) side when the county comes through and (in effect) re-digs the ditch every several years. It’s NOT consistent - the “good stuff” is just in patches. The organic content surely is a bit high in juglone from all the hickory trees nearby. Sunlight is marginal, but, that sure doesn’t seem to slow down any of the stuff that wants to grow in or alongside the ditch. So... Onions are supposed to be resistant to juglone: I’m thinking it might be worth a try to plant some onion starts that I have extras of, out there, and see what happens. (My budget for potting soil and pots is shot!) I hit a couple spots today, with Roundup as “prep”, which should slow down the competition for a while. We are supposed to get some rain the next few days, so after that, I’ll plunk in a few starts