Healthy Living for Cheapskates

• Tired of paying exorbitant prices for gel insoles? Simply fill your running shoes with chocolate pudding.

• Have you ever considered saving the life of a farmer so that he feels beholden to you and pays you back in fresh vegetables?

• You wind up paying extra for those 100-calorie packs, so buy 1,000-calorie packs and only eat one-tenth of the contents at a time.

• Make your own Red Bull by mixing together caffeine, taurine, glucuronolactone, B-group vitamins, sucrose and glucose.

• You can make your own water bottle by finding some sort of container that will hold liquid and then filling it with water.

• You can make your own kettlebell at home by welding an iron “C” to an ordinary metal ball.

• Most fitness centers will give you a pass for a free trial week, so you just need to find 52 different gyms to “try”.

• Based on my experience, setting up a $5-a-pop kissing booth at the mall won't make you as much extra spending money as much as you thought.