Frugal Living And Health

Sites to help you keep Healthy for free

NHS Direct - The NHS Direct textphone number is 0845 606 46 47.
You can ring the NHS Direct textphone number at any time of the day or night. Calls to NHS Direct are charged at BT local rates. Other telephone service providers may charge different call rates

5 a day nhs site - to encourage you to eat more fruit and veg

Need medical and health care? Find your five nearest:
GP surgeries,
opticians,
dentists, and
pharmacies.

Which treatments work?

Save loads of money on health related areas like eyes, teeth and body

Discount Contact Lens - once you've got a prescription for contact lenses then you can buy supplies of lenses elsewhere and save money. This site shows you places online where you can save quite a lot of money on contact lenses. Its well worth checking out how much you can save. Your prescription must be current and you have to be able to fax or send them a copy to confirm your prescripotion details.

We've just found this place that ssells the most amazing glasses at really low prices. - we're testing them now and will update you on how great their service is. We have heard very good things about them

Dieting Diets - loads of useful info on dieting, free diary sheets to print and help motivating yourself to lose weight. Being obese puts you more at risk of loads of horrid illnesess.

Diet Freebies - again freebies for people who want to diet and info on loads of uk diet clubs.

Boots online - always loads of bogofs and 3 for 2

Health and Essentials - vitamins, minerals and supplements

Pharmacy2U - online chemist, with prescription service available as well as fantastic prices on loads of health products and medicine

Frugal health hints

• Check out own brand toothpastes at the supermarket. Check out bogofs too.
• Ask at the chemist when cashing a prescription if the item is available without for less...
• See if you can get free or reduced price prescritpions Some people automatically get free prescriptions. Certain people can get an exemption certificate to obtain free prescriptions. Also, anyone needing regular prescriptions may save money by buying a Prescription Prepayment Certificate.
• For free gym equipment subscribe to your local freecycler group and wait! See our recycle page
• Try walking - its great exercise and can be used as part of a frugal lifestyle to save you money! Get off the bus a stop or two earlier and walk the rest of the way
• Watch out for free gym membership offers locally and take them up! Don't subscribe unless you are really going to use the gym loads - always read the t&c carefully before you sign anything so you know how much notice you have to give them.
• Try weightlifting with cans of beans or bags of lentils! You can get a good workout wihtout expensive equipment
• Find out when the local swimming pools and gyms offer discounts and go then! Sometimes local authoritys give local people cheaper rates if you have a membership card. Always worth asking!
• Don't buy cold remedies. Honey, lemon and paracetamol will do the same trick for less. Own brand paracetamol will cost you something like 19p a packet compared to £2-3 for a box of 10 cold remedies. Most people have lemon and honey in the kitchen anyway so it'll cost you next to nothing. Use warm - not just boiled - water so you don't scald yourself.