Daily Idea #314: Eat Dirt!

My 7 year old is obsessed with asking “would you rather” questions right now and he likes to make them as weird as possible. Many of these questions revolve around food— i.e. would you rather eat frog guts or or cow poo? Delicious, isn’t it? 🤮 For today’s daily idea, I am going to ask him if he would rather eat mud and worms from a bowl or in a jar.

ITEMS NEEDED:

• gallon sized plastic bag

• large mixing bowl

• whisk

• a rolling pin or something to break up the cookies into small bits

• Serving bowls or mason jars

• 1 15-oz. package chocolate sandwich cookies (like Oreos)

• 1 3.9-oz package chocolate instant pudding

• 2 cups cold milk

• 8 oz. whipped topping (like Cool Whip)

• Gummy worms

Let’s get started by making the “dirt”. Place all of the sandwich cookies into a gallon sized plastic bag. Using the rolling pin smash the cookies. Keep crushing up the cookies (cream filling and all) until there are fine crumbs.

Then follow the instructions on the pudding box to make your pudding. Usually it entails pouring the pudding mix into the bowl and adding milk. Then, whisk that together until the pudding powder is dissolved into the milk and there are no more clumps. Let it sit for a few minutes to thicken.

Add the whipped topping and just under half of the crushed cookies to your pudding. Fold the mixture together until it is fully blended.

Divide the pudding mixture into the serving bowls/jars evenly. Add a few gummy worms to each bowl and more of the cookie crumbs and voila! Enjoy your mud and worms!