Birthday Freebies

It was my birthday at the beginning of the month and these days, having a birthday can be lucrative. So many companies entice you into having their loyalty apps by promising freebies on your birthday, along with offers and discounts at other times throughout the year. I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth so I thought I'd show you what I received from a few of the companies whose apps I use.

Marks & Spencer's Chocolate Truffles are one of my favourite chocolates so I was thrilled that my gift from them was a box of these. I went for the dark chocolate ones. I could have opted to have a punnet of grapes instead but they wouldn't have been nearly as delicious. Marks & Spencer change the gifts on offer, at the end of August Jacob's gift was some biscuits, and a couple of weeks before that, Mick's birthday gift was a tub of Mini Bites.

Costa gifted me a sweet treat of my choice, which is clever as I'm sure most customers will buy a cup of tea or coffee, or even a meal, at the same time as claiming their birthday gift. Yes, they scored on that account as both Mick and I ordered a drink, but we shared the cake, as we often do anyway. The Sicilian Lemon Muffins are delicious.

A sweet treat was also my birthday gift from Greggs. This time I went for a triple chocolate muffin. Mick still had his birthday freebie to claim so both of our treats were free on this occasion, we just paid for the drinks. The chocolate muffin wasn't as nice as the lemon muffin we'd had in Costa, but it was nice to have another sweet treat gifted.

I received a free doughnut from Krispy Kreme. I absolutely love their doughnuts but I don't have them often as I think they're rather expensive, (and calorific!), so this really was a treat. I usually choose the Nutty Chocolatta.

Hobbycraft gifted me a £5 voucher and Mick kindly gave me the voucher he got when it was his birthday so I had £10 to spend. I'm not really a fan of the yarn they sell, there isn't a lot of choice, but I picked up four 50g balls of Wendy Peter Pan DK. They cost £3.30 per ball so I only had £3.20 to pay and I'll be able to knit a jumper or cardigan for Jack.

I'm sure you'll agree that I did very well in terms of gifts from the companies in my phone. I know people who download apps just to receive the freebies, and there are many other companies who give gifts on birthdays, but these are apps I use anyway so it's always nice to have a little treat from them every once in a while, and especially on your birthday. It's time to get back to some healthy eating now, I've had far too many treats just lately.