Cheap ways to make cheap food taste better?

Post ideas on ways to make cheap (and lower on the calorie scale is nice) food taste better.  Stuff like Ramen, rice..  things like that.

I sometimes make a normal package of Maruchan ramen and drop spoonfuls of white rice in.

Another one I do is put loads of Tabasco Chipotle sauce on a BocaBurger.

Please post your ideas!

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Don't buy spices at the supermarket if you can avoid it.  If there's an ethnic market (Hispanic, Asian, Indian, West Indian, etc.) near you, they have big-ass containers of quality spices and herbs for far less.  A tiny thing of McCormick cayenne pepper will run you $4-5 at a supermarket; a restaurant-size shaker thing of cayenne goes for the same price at my local Cuban market. 

Marinating is your friend if you've got meat.  A bit of cheap soy sauce, some oregano, black pepper, red pepper flakes (swipe a shaker from your local pizzeria if you need), let it soak for an hour or two, and you've got a hell of a piece of meat.