Minute pasta? You mean something you make in a minute or like from a pack or something?
Personally I cut my cooking teeth on pre-pack heat/add milk/water type pastas, they taught me about how to season and use herbs to make things a lot nicer.
Nothing wrong with quick, nothing wrong with convenient, definitely nothing wrong with cheap...as long as you throw in enough "real" and/or fresh to the equation, you're good IMO.
Juist had this great German dark chocolate coated chocolate chewy toffee thing called a "Reisen" seen here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Riesen-Choco.../dp/B004H2V75E
If anyone can get their hands on these, I highly recommend.