Cat food & ants

[dmsj]

Fellow cat-people:

Have you ever had a problem with little bitty ants being attracted to your cat's dry food, if it gets left out? We had this problem last summer, and I'd forgotten about it until just now, when I found a zillion ants crawling all over Moonshine's food and had to throw it out.

If you've had this problem, how did you stop it? Is there anything we can do other than put her food bowl away the second she's done eating (she prefers to graze, so we leave it out for her... but that's not going to work if it's going to attract ants all summer)?


Thanks!