The 15days of Chinese New Year is almost up. We still have a lot of sweetmeat, cookies and titbits at home. There are quite a few packets of large size Twisties, Mamee, Cheezels and other savoury crackers lying around, all opened, but unfinished. We tried to preserve their freshness by tying rubber bands round the openings.

Lately, we have seen the kid touching and handling these half finished packets of junk food. Of course I didn’t allow her to those foods, too much salt. We quietly consented her playing with them as long as she didn’t try to open or squash the content. Hey, she was really very “obedient”, never protested or tried to rip off the seal. But her intense interest in those packets got us suspicious; there must be something sneaky going on to make her so contented.

So we observed her. She was playing with the packaging, turning it here and there. Then she stuck her index finger into the opening (which is half exposed as we tied the rubber band further down), gave it a few swipes, then poked the savoury coated finger into her mouth, lick lick. Yummy! She had been cleaning all the exposed inner wall of the packaging secretly throughout this Chinese New Year. And I only just found that out a few days ago, when I let her played with my last packet of empty Mamee noodle wrapper on our way home from Sentosa. Later, I also discovered that she has been scavenging the rubbish bin for empty packet drinks.

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