I did not guess my son was getting rid of the food that he did not like, until I found it in his secret hiding spot.
He must have been putting food in that spot for several weeks, because the food was filled with mold and rotten. I turned on the oil furnace this day, because it was legitimately chilly last evening. The home was only 55 degrees and I decided to turn on the oil furnace for a couple of hours. After a few hours, I started to odor the most horrible odor coming from the family room. I looked all over the room and I even cleaned out the fridge. Still, the horrible odor lingered all over the room. I got out some cleaning supplies and I scrubbed all of the countertops. After I was finished, I got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed the floors. While I was scrubbing the floors, I found the location and source of the odor. On the left side of the living room table, there is a vent for our oil furnace on the floor. My son sits on the chair directly above the oil furnace vent. I do not think the amount of food was a mistake or an accident, so I assumed my son was hiding the food in the oil furnace vent. It was a clever place to hide the food, until I realized where the odor was coming from. When I confronted him with the truth, he started crying and begged me not to make him eat spinach. I’m lucky the food did not cause damage to the vent or the oil furnace.