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Five Places to Get a Free Treat Today for National Doughnut Day

Today, scarfing down a doughnut for breakfast isn't a guilty pleasure, but a holiday tradition. It's National Doughnut Day, the perfect excuse to go out and get a calorie-laden, heart-clogging piece of fried dough. The holiday dates back to 1938, when the Chicago Salvation Army set aside the first Friday in June to honor women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I and raise funds.

You can celebrate National Doughnut Day without shelling out any cash, since a number of doughnut shops are offering treats for free today. So grab your coffee and get in line at these five shops because each has a limited supply.

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Seattle's Healthy Donuts: Shouldn't Work But It Does

In general, we take a firm stand against any attempts to make foods like donuts healthy. They're donuts – sugar-topped balls of fried flour – they're by definition unhealthy, and should stay that way.

But we do make an exception for one place – Mighty-O Donuts in Seattle, which manages to turn out a product that is vegan, organic, trans fat-free, cholesterol-free, has no artificial flavors or chemicals, yet is somehow delicious. Seriously, we don't know how they do it.

Admittedly, these treats won't be featured at your local health food store anytime soon – they are, after all, still sugar-topped balls of fried flour – but with innovative flavors like Coffee Bomb, Banana Bread and French Toast – a cinnamon, ginger and orange spiced maple syrup donut (sans eggs of course) – your mouth will never even know these are a healthier kind of donut.

Plus: free food alert! Mighty-O will be handing out free mini-donuts all day this Friday, June 5 in honor of National Doughnut Day (what, you didn't know?)

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· Mighty-O Donuts [Official Site]
· Get Dat Donut [Jaunted]
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