Mum creates Jurassic Park-themed mashed potato mountain with dinosaur nuggets and gravy lava slide

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A mum created a Jurassic Park-themed mashed potato mountain - complete with dinosaur nuggets, broccoli trees and a gravy lava slide.  Sarah Maune, 31, a nurse from Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, decided to create it for her dinosaur-mad son Walker Maune.  Sarah filmed herself making it using potato flake mixes which she spread on her kitchen table.  She also used dinosaur nuggets, broccoli for the trees and some of her son's dinosaur toys.  It took Sarah around an hour and a half to create the meal, which cost just under £24 ($30).  Sarah said: "I covered my whole table with tinfoil and used it as a base with pots underneath to make the mountain taller.  "I bought five of the potato flake mixes and mixed them all with my husband whilst cooking some dinosaur nuggets that I had in my freezer."  Sarah's dinosaur-obsessed son Walker, four, loved his mum's creation and had all of his friends over to help him eat it.  Sarah said: "We had a party with all of Walker's friends and their parents so none of it went to waste.  "It's so much fun for the kids - that's why I do it.  "It was more shock for Walker. He loves dinosaurs so you can imagine his face when he saw it.  "Even my youngest Wren, who is only 17 months, was loving it too."  With the creation a success, Sarah is keen to push the boundaries of food creation even further.  She explained that after the success of her second video, she had to see if she could take it even further.   She said: "So I think I'm going to scale it up about four times more than the previous video.  "I've bought this industrial sub-pump and I'm going to make a bigger gravy mountain and try and pump the gravy from a bucket or something.  "We’re trying to figure out the scale and structure at the moment but its going to be really big.  "I think we'll all have to wear plastic sheets to protect us, I may even have to have my house professionally cleaned afterwards.  "I just thought go big or go home and I can see how big we can get."

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00:02 Coming back, I'm doing this way bigger.

00:12 Bigger, better, I'm going all out.

00:13 I'm lining my entire table with tin foil

00:16 because I don't have a pan big enough for this.

00:18 I'm going to use bowls as the base for my volcano.

00:21 And then I ended up using a crap ton of mashed potatoes.

00:25 And by the way, I had this all hot and ready to go.

00:28 Like this was a heated meal by the time it was served.

00:31 I got asparagus on there, I got broccoli, I got candles.

00:34 Okay, this thing at the sheer height of it,

00:36 I had to stand on a chair to get to the top.

00:38 I got my dino nuggies, okay.

00:39 I washed my hands before this.

00:41 FYI, just letting everybody know.

00:43 And also I decided this time I will not fail on the gravy.

00:47 The last time the gravy mixed, it did not go well.

00:50 It just would not thicken up.

00:51 I got my dinos in the background

00:53 and time to start the show.

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