Survivor Man

For any of you who have cable and like to watch Survivor Man, you will appreciate this the most. For the rest of you....it's a funny story, actually it's disgusting but kids will do the darndest things.

Jaden LOVES to watch this particular show and for his birthday, we got him the first series on dvd. WELL... I don't know if that was the greatest idea because in the next few pictures, you will understand why. There are reasons why people do stuff like this in a "survival" situation. In one particular episode, the guy, (I forgot his name) shows you how to eat and cook up a grasshopper. Jaden decided he wanted to find out if you could REALLY do that, so the kids went grasshopper hunting. Unfortunately they were VERY successful and we had one too many grasshoppers than what they needed to try this experiment of theirs. (I finally had to tell them to stop hunting them and eating them.)

First, you take your grass hopper.

Next you pull off the head and the guts come out with it. Kind of like cleaning a fish if you can do it the right way.

Then you take a small stick and insert into the bug just like a kabob.

After that, place it on a hot rock that has been sitting in a fire and wait for it to turn charcoal black. (That way, all you taste is ash. More edible that way.)

Ashton was too eager to take this next insect, he chomped down on that before i could get a picture of the "hot off the grill" dish is so delicately clamped down on. But trust me....he ate it.

And the drink i held out for him...didn't need it. It "tasted good," he said GROSS!!!!