Friday, September 11, 2009

Protecting Sweets from Ants - The Old School Way


If you have some sweet and pretty things like these babies, and they aren't ready for fridge/storage boxes yet...and in summer, with threats from little ants sometimes crawl around sweet things in my kitchen...(I almost mistook them for poppy seeds on my cake, until I realised that I've never baked anything with poppy seeds)....


I use this simple trick I grew up with...learnt it from my grandma back home.
Place the lil' sweet things on cake stand/plate/bowl, put it on a bigger plate, pour water into the bigger plate.

It may look stupid, but it works ^_^

Too bad, little ants...now you gotta learn how to swim to get to my sweets :p

11 comments:

  1. daphneSeptember 12, 2009 at 12:56 AM

    hahaha. Oh yeah- this is the most efficient and low cost way to get rid of the ants!

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  2. Little Corner of MineSeptember 12, 2009 at 4:40 AM

    Hahaha...what a great idea!

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  3. KennyTSeptember 12, 2009 at 8:34 AM

    This is genius!

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  4. EatTravelEatSeptember 12, 2009 at 1:26 PM

    I agree this is a great idea that actually works! Ants love to crawl into my house and it gets so annoying with them crawling on the ground, cabinets, countertop, dishes....yuck.

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  5. tracieMooSeptember 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM

    owh yes.. I do this too.. especially when I want to place some snacks in my room!

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    I think I got a better solution.... just give me all the sweets and cakes ;)

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  7. pigpigscornerSeptember 15, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    Neat trick!

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  8. ChienSeptember 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM

    Hi, new reader here! I do the same and suppose most people in South East Asia as well. Used to live in Thailand - does that. Now that I am living in Indonesia - doing it still :)

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  9. StarningblueSeptember 19, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    Hi there! I have been using this method to ward off ants in my food but I just found out recently, ants DO swim!

    Whats back-up plan? :x

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  10. UnknownSeptember 19, 2009 at 5:48 PM

    starningblue, noooo...really? i guess i'll have to pop the sweets into the fridge then...

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  11. Mrs ErgülOctober 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM

    What a great trick, I will have to use this cuz they attack everything I leave on the counter, from sweet to savoury!! Thanks for this brilliant idea!

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