Pour 2 cups of grapefruit juice into a 4 Cup container
Add the gelatin, stir and let sit 5 mins
Melt in the microwave for 1 min on high
Add the sugar and stir - make sure the sugar gets dissolved, you can microwave longer if it doesn’t
Add 2 more cups of grapefruit juice
Add the white food dye and stir - this will make it opaque.
IF your mixture is still looking very pink add a SMALL (more like half a drop) drop of light green (I use avacado green) gel dye. Or try using a drop (or two) of liquid green dye. Remember you can always add more, you can’t take it away. You are trying to bring in more brown and less pink by doing this - more earthworm colored - stir
Open up all the straws - so the bendable area will create a “neck” for your worms
Shove into the tall container (bendy side down) and pour the mixture into the container
Let sit 4 hours or until set
Take the straws out of the container and pull away the excess jello
Working about 6 straws at a time quickly run them under warm water for 20-30 seconds (to help loosen the jello) and then using a rolling pin pressed against one end of the straws roll up the straws and the worms will come out