By Kemp Minifie As human beings we like to think we’re generous, but if we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us have to admit to secretly stashing favorite food treats, so that when the time’s right or the craving hits, we’ll have it all to ourselves. I polled a wide swath of family, friends, acquaintances, and co-workers to come up with these ten secret spots. 1. Bottom Shelf of The Refrigerator: This might not sound like a hiding place at first, but it’s got all the right qualities: it’s dark and not easily visible unless you bend way over or get down on one knee, which is much more effort than most people exert when looking in the fridge for something to eat. My vice is chocolate–bittersweet bars, brownies, and chocolate chip cookies–and that’s where I stash it. Unfortunately for me, chocolate also happens to be a favorite of my husband and daughters. When our girls were tots, I hid my hoard in the freezer out of their reach. That worked until my husband found the goodies. So I switched to the very back of the bottom shelf of the fridge because, let’s face it, who besides mom sticks her hand back there? 2. Cleaning Supplies Cabinet: It holds the same level of attraction as the bottom shelf of the fridge, but the food had better be well sealed. “I have to hide food all the time from my husband,” wrote a colleague. “The cleaning supplies cabinet is a place he’s sure never to look.” 3. Dishwasher: Several pals swear by the dishwasher. The males in their households don’t make use of that appliance. A mum with several sons thought she was getting away with it until one child happened to open the dishwasher and found a box of cookies there. He whispered worriedly to his father, “I think Mum is going crazy. She put cookies in the dishwasher!” 4. Empty Bran Flakes Boxes: If you’re a kid, bran flakes are totally out of the question when you come home from school, ravenous for a snack. That’s what one mother figured, and she’s been happily sneaking cookies from those boxes for years. 5. Trompe L’Oeil Book Boxes: Talk about hiding in plain sight! A friend married to an art collector keeps a couple of antique-looking books on her night table. Open them up, and they’re perfect hiding places. Note the chocolate stashed in the open box at the right. The book boxes actually arrived as a gift filled with handmade chocolate bonbons. The art collector has yet to inquire why he never sees her reading the books! 6. Empty Shampoo Bottles: A former camp counselor reported that she was ordered to do random candy searches in the bunkhouse she shared with a gaggle of 13-year olds, and discovered just how creative the kids could be. A rattling shampoo bottle hid a mother lode of M&M’s. Of course the counselor had to sample them to make sure the camper hadn’t been poisoning herself…<div

Source: Epicurious