With food budgets getting tighter and tighter, it's time to start rethinking how we eat. One good way to start that process is to remember what it was like to be a poor college student. If you never had the thrill of long weeks spent eating ramen noodles and debating Nietzsche, convinced that you could solve every problem in the world with your big brain, imagine that you're trapped in a 10x12 room with nothing but a hot plate.

With headers like "Augment" and "Eggs," Trent's ideas are pretty easy to both follow and put into action. Is it gourmet fare? No. Is it healthy and inexpensive? You betcha.

Take all of those saved dollars and buy yourself a copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Just one chapter will have you feeling much better about the economic downturn, if only because you are not German, very sad and dead.