Birthday Cravings?

Everyone loves free food, especially on your birthday!
I’ve noticed that many of these offers not only send you a free coupon on your birthday, but will also send you a coupon the very day you sign up for the club!


Many of these birthday freebies and coupons are via e-mail, so be sure to sign up in advance. And remember, all deals are subject to location participation!
[via Hey Its Free]

Restaurant	Freebie
Abuelo's	Free dessert.
Acapulco	Free entree.
Amato's Sandwich Shop	Free large Amato's original 9" cheese pizza or a cheese pazzo bread.
Applebee's	New signup form claims a free dessert. I've never received anything though...
Arby's	Free 12oz. milkshake with any purchase.
Atlanta Bread Company	Free cookie.
Au Bon Pain	Free sandwich or salad.
Auntie Anne's Pretzels	Free BOGO coupon for any pretzel item.
Bakers Square	Free slice of pie with any adult entree purchase.
Baskin Robbins	Free 2.5 oz scoop of ice cream or a swirl of soft serve.
Beef 'O' Brady's	Free dessert with the purchase of any entree.
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream	You become a Chunk Spelunker and get a free scoop of ice cream plus $3 off an ice cream cake!
Benihana's Japanese Restaurant	$30 gift certificate.
bd's Mongolian Grill	Free stir-fry meal.
Biggby Coffee	A snail mailed coupon for a free grande beverage.
BJ's Restaurants	Free Pizookie dessert (otherwise known as a delicious dessert).
Black Angus Steakhouse	Free BOGO steak dinner, up to $19.99.
Black Dear Diner	Free dessert with any food purchase.
Boston Market	Free individual dessert with purchase of any create your plate meal.
Boston's The Gourmet Pizza	Free flatbread.
Bonanza Steakhouse	BOGO coupon for one free steak or buffet.
Brio Tuscan Grille	Free filet and crab shrimp cake.
Bruegger's	Free cookie and an e-mail with a goofy looking mascot.
Bruster's	Free BOGO coupon for a waffle cone.
Buca di Beppo	Free small appetizer for groups up to 5. Free large appetizer for groups of 6 or more.
Buffalo Wild Wings	Free dessert.
Captain D's	Your choice of a 2 piece fish dinner, fish & shrimp dinner, or season tilapia dinner.
Caribou Coffee	Free medium drink.
Carrabba’s Italian Grill	Free dessert with purchase of an entree.
Carrows	Free dessert.
Chevys	Free entree.
Chick-fil-A
Chili's	Free brownie sundae.
Coldstone Creamery
Country Buffet	$3 off a regular adult dinner.
Country Kitchen	Free dinner entree up to $8 in value with valid ID.
Culver's	Free one-scoop sundae.
Dairy Queen	One BOGO coupon for a free mini, small, or medium blizzard.
Daphne's Greek Cafe	Free entree. They also promise the meal will be delicious.
Del Taco	Free premium milkshake.
Denny's	Free Grand Slam breakfast.
Dickey's Barbecue Pit	BOGO coupon for one free BBQ sandwich.
Dippin' Dots	Free small cup of Dippin' Dots.
Don Pablos	$10 gift certificate.
Einstein Bros Bagels	Free breakfast sandwich when you buy any drink.
El Chicos	Free fried ice cream.
El Torito	Free entree.
Famous Dave's Barbeque	Free dessert with the purchase of an entree.
Fazoli's	Free dessert.
Firehouse Subs	Free medium celebratory sub with valid ID.
Flat Top Grill	Free stir fry, however they're planning on changing this to a $5 off coupon.
Fox and Hound	Free BOGO coupon for any entree.
Friendly's	Free single cone with any Friendly's purchase.
Fuddruckers	Free 1/3 lb. burger.
Genghis Grill	Free birthday bowl.
Glory Days Grill	Free Oreo sliders.
Gold Star Chili	Free meal.
Gordon Biersch	Free BOGO coupon for an entree.
Great American Cookies	Free cookie cake slice with the purchase of a regular soda. Because nothing goes with a cookie like sugar water.
Hometown Buffet	Free BOGO adult dinner buffet.
Hooters	10 free wings.
Houlihan's	Free menu item up to $15.
HuHot Mongolian Grill	(What the heck is with all these Mongolian grills?) Free grill meal.
IHOP	Free Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity breakfast. In English, that means two eggs, 2 bacon strips, 2 sausage links, and two pancakes.
Jack in the Box	Free dessert with a valid ID and the printable coupon.
Jason's Deli	$5 off any item.
Jersey Mike's	Free regular sub and 22 oz. fountain drink.
Joe's Crab Shack	Free appetizer.
Johnny Rockets	Free hamburger with the purchase of any entree and drink. So basically a BOGO.
Juice It Up	Free BOGO 24 oz. smoothie.
Keg Steakhouse and Bar	Free 10 oz. Prime Rib classic dinner and caesar salad for US visitors only and you must sign up a month in advance.
Keva Juice	Free 24 oz. regular blend smoothie.
Krispy Kreme	Good question.
la Madeleine	Free pastry.
Logan's Roadhouse	Free Nutter Butter Fudgeslide with any entree purchase. I have no idea what this is but it sounds spectacular.
LongHorn Steakhouse	A delicious free dessert.
Maggianos	Coupon for $10 off any check of $30 or more.
Maggie Moo's	Free ice cream cone.
Marble Slab Creamery	Free ice cream cone.
Marie Callenders	$5 coupon and a free slice of pie.
McAlister's Deli	$5 coupon. I'm starting to see a pattern here.
Memphis BBQ	Free entree up to $20.
Mimis Cafe	Free entree up to $10 value with any $20 check.
Moe's Southwest Grill	One free entree (excluding fajitas) as well as free chips and salsa.
Ninety Nine	Free dessert
Noodles & Company	Free bowl of soup.
Not Your Average Joe's	Free entree and dessert.
O'Charley's	$5 coupon with any $20 food purchase.
Old Country Buffet	Free BOGO adult dinner buffet.
Olive Garden	Nwonknu
On The Border	Free dip trio or brownie sundae.
Orange Julius	Free BOGO 20 oz. Julius or premium fruit smoothie.
Papa Murphy's	Free cookie dough with the purchase of any pizza.
Planet Smoothie	Free small smoothie.
Ponderosa	Free steak dinner
Qdoba Mexican Grill	BOGO free entree coupon.
Red Lobster	$5 off two adult entrees.
Red Robin	Free Gourmet Burger if you pick up a Red Royalty Card at your local restaurant and then register it online.
Rita's Italian Ice	Free regular Italian Ice.
Romanos Macaroni Grill	Free slice of chocolate cake.
Ruby Tuesday	Free handcrafted burger of your choice.
Ryan's	Free BOGO adult dinner buffet.
Schlotzsky's	Free small sandwich.
Sharis Restaurant	Free slice of pie.
Smoky Bones	$5 coupon.
Smoothie King	BOGO coupon for a free 20 oz. smoothie.
Sonic	Free regular creamslush, medium tator tots, or medium drink!
Souper Salad	Free lunch or dinner buffet.
Spaghetti Warehouse	Free spaghetti entree and spumoni sundae.
Spicy Pickle	Free entree.
Starbucks	Currently unknown.
Steak 'n Shake	Free Double Steakburger with Cheese 'n Fries.
Sticky Fingers	This might be my favorite offer yet. You get a free half-slab of ribs or any other menu item priced up to $13.99.
Taco Bueno	Free cheesecake chimichangas with the purchase of any entree.
Taco Cabana	Free flauta plate, which includes 3 chicken flautas with rice, beans, pico de gallo, sour cream, guacamole and 2 fresh flour tortillas.
Taco Del Mar	Make a guess! We can't get confirmation on this.
Taco John's	Free cini-sopapilla bites. I've never had these before, but if they’re as delicious as they are hard to spell, I’m excited.
TCBY	Free small cup of frozen yogurt and $3 off a cake or pie.
Ted's Montana Grill	Free cookie and ice cream dessert.
Texas De Brazil	Free BOGO coupon for a dinner.
Texas Roadhouse	Free appetizer or sidekick of ribs.
T.G.I. Friday's	Free dessert with the purchase of an entree.
Tony Roma's	Free entree up to $15.99.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe	Free smoothie.
Waffle House	Free waffle.
Wendy's	$1 off any premium combo.
Which Wich	Free regular Wich (AKA sandwich).
Wienerschnitzel	One free corndog.
Wingstop	Free large fresh cut seasoned fries.
Zaxby's	Free nibbler and free meal deal.
Zoes Kitchen	Free BOGO coupon for an entree.
Z' Tejas	$10 coupon.

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BEEF: Pink slime and ammonia!!

"Fat, sinew, bloody effluvia, and bits of meat." Oh, and ammonia.

This is what you're eating when you buy and prepare ground beef from most grocery stores in the U.S. today. It's also what you're eating when you eat a fast food burger or grab a quick bite at your local diner, most likely.


The latest issue of Mary Jane's Farm spreads some light on what's really in our ground beef. And the results of what they found are enough to make this particular blogger swear off ground beef for good.

The article isn't online yet, but here are a few choice quotes:

- "Ten years ago, the rejected fat, sinew, bloody effluvia, and occasional bits of meat cut from carcasses in the slaughterhouse were a low-value waste product called 'trimmings' that were sold primarily as pet food. No more. Now, Beef Products Inc. of South Dakota transforms trimmings into something they call 'boneless lean beef.' In huge factories, the company liquefies the trimmings and uses a spinning centrifuge to separate the sinews and fats from the meat, leaving a mash that has been described as 'pink slime,' which is then frozen into small squares and sold as a low-cost additive to hamburger."

- "BPI produces more than 7 million pounds of the mash per week, making it the world's largest manufacturer of this frozen product. BPI explains that its product is mixed into most of the ground beef sold in the U.S. - at major fast-food restaurants, supermarkets, and school lunch programs." (Emphasis mine.)


But that's not all! See, the problem when you turn garbage bits of animal carcasses into "pink slime" to sell as a food product is that there's an issue with pathogens, such as E. coli. And when samples of the pink slime were tested, the tests came back showing that the slime was rampant with harmful bacteria.

Now, one might think that the best idea would be to decide not to sell pink slime to feed to humans, but there's no money in that, is there? So BPI cleverly started disinfecting the slime with ammonia. And convinced the FDA to allow them to list it as a "processing ingredient" so that we wouldn't know we were eating ammonia.


We're eating garbage, people. Literally -- garbage that's been "cleaned up" with ammonia and sold to us mixed with ground beef, shrink wrapped for convenience at our local megamart.

The obvious step is to swear off ground beef. Becoming a vegetarian is looking better and better by the day, isn't it? If you can't live without your grilled burgers and meatloaf (and I can relate), look for sources of organic, local beef, and ask for it to be ground by your butcher or grind it yourself.

All I know is, I will never feed pink slime and ammonia to my family again.

Vanderlinden, Planet Green, Colleen. "Pink Slime and Ammonia: Two Main Ingredients in Some Ground Beef" 03 January 2012. HowStuffWorks.com. 17 May 2012.

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