Deer fear the odor of human beings. they don't even know what coffee, candy, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, pizza or any other thing you may need to get through the day smells like. A few years ago on an all dayer in a tree stand I ate a sammich and some trail mix for lunch, drank some coffee. later in the afternoon just before I would expect deer to be moving again I ate an apple. A week or so prior a scrape appeared not 20 yards from that stand. When I got done eating the apple, just for the hell of it, I tossed the apple core as close to that scrape as I could. it landed within a foot or so. About two hours later a respectable 2 1/2 year old 4X4 slipped in and went right to that scrape. He spotted that apple core and immediately grabbed it up and ate it, no hesitation at all! I nearly busted out laughing out loud. He went on to hammer that scrape and then on his merry way looking for love. wind was cleverly in my favor so all he smelled was an apple core that I had touched, and it did not cause him to take pause for a nanosecond. food is not a problem from a scent control standpoint, imo. I'm more concerned getting busted moving around in the stand while I eat than a deer smelling my lunch.