Eating cheap

Key word here, Indian food. Indian food is so much about an over powering sauce (ie curry) that you don't get a good taste of the food it is covering. Usually this is a pretty bad thing, but in our situation, being poor college student or a student wanting to save their parent's money, this is our road to eating cheap. I used masala sauce on top of beans (the meat substitute) and it tasted like the sauce, the weird canned bean taste wasn't there. Eating that with some rice and some vegetables (frozen is ok, but eating fresh I think is worth the price and time for the nutrition) you got yourself a cheap meal. Rice (jasmine for our apartment) is like .50 a pound (dry), canned beans ~$1 a can, and the sauce I used was $3 a jar from the food co-op. It's a bland lifestyle but that's life.