Chocolate craving? This works for me!

This is going to sounds really weird but when I have a craving for chocolate I can either do this or give in to the craving.   With 70 days until summer I really don't want to give in!

We have a box of those mini M&M tubes from Costco in the cabinet.  No.....I'm not going to say just eat them (but if you do it's 150 calories and 4 grams of fat).  What I'm going to say works for me and that is to just smell an empty tube of them.  Yes I said just smell an empty tube of them.  The tube keeps the M&M smell very nicely and it takes my craving away.  They do say a lot of eating is triggered by the smell alone.  By smelling the M&M tube I don't feel it necessary to actually eat any M&Ms!  If you have one of these tubes in your house give it a try!  (or just buy one and give most of the candy to your kids)  I know it sounds crazy but don't knock it until you've tried it!  :)