Here's what you can get for free on your birthday - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat Business New Tech Economy Technology of Business Artificial Intelligence Africa Business Paths to Success From cake to pizza: How to get the best birthday freebies (and why there's a catch) Image source, Getty Images Image caption, From meals to beauty products, you can get a lot of freebies on your birthday By Yasmin Rufo Business reporter Published 4 hours ago "It's your birthday!" Cue the influx of emails offering you all sorts of freebies. Sign up to the right apps and loyalty schemes and you could spend the day enjoying free cake, meals out, beauty treats and even cinema snacks. Here are some of the things you can get on or around your birthday - and why they may not all be as free as they seem. Cakes, cookies and chocolates Most chain coffee shops and bakeries offer a birthday treat through their loyalty apps. You can get a free sweet treat, usually a cake, cookie, muffin or doughnut, from Greggs, Costa, Caffè Nero, Krispy Kreme, Gail's, Subway and Ole & Steen if you have registered your date of birth in advance. Lidl Plus members can claim a free bakery doughnut within seven days of their birthday, while M&S Sparks members can choose two gifts on their birthday from a range of 15 which includes cookies and chocolates. Hotel Chocolat gives members a £5 birthday reward with a minimum spend of £5.50 and Lindt offers a free box of truffles when you meet its minimum spend requirement. To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Would you lie to get a bi