Are you ready to meditate with Kari?
Lie down in your bed and get really comfortable.
Make sure that the light is just right in your room.
You're wearing your comfy pajamas and you can relax your body and let go of your busy day.
Tucker and Leo were being chefs.
They were hanging out at Noah's house.
Noah had invited his friends over,
River and their brother,
Jesse.
They were all wearing aprons,
Including Tucker and Leo.
Leo had just had a record amount of sneezes.
Fifteen.
He had flour up his nose.
I think I'm definitely,
Definitely allergic to flour.
He sneezed again.
Tucker said,
Leo,
Come on,
It's flour.
There's nothing in flour.
It's just flour.
Noah said,
You'd be surprised.
It depends if it's organic flour.
If it's not organic flour,
Then they put pesticides all over the wheat and then the pesticides are in the flour.
Leo said,
See,
I knew it.
There's something in this flour.
Noah said,
Leo,
This is organic flour.
Tucker said,
See,
Leo,
Half of this allergic stuff is in your mind,
You know.
I think,
You know,
The more you think about being allergic to something,
The more you actually are allergic to something.
Like there was this one time,
Right,
I was out aside and I was in the sunshine and I absolutely loved the sun.
It's like the bestest thing in the world.
I mean,
Can you imagine the world without the sun?
No,
You can't,
Can you?
And I was laid there in the sun and I was thinking about being allergic to the sun and what that would be like and how horrible that would be.
Leo interrupted and said that he actually thinks he is a bit allergic to the sun because he gets like sun rashes.
Exactly,
Leo.
And I was laid there and I was thinking,
Oh,
That would be so terrible.
And then all of a sudden,
I started to get itchy under my armpits and I was like,
Oh,
I think I might be allergic to the sun.
And I wasn't.
I was just sweaty.
But still,
You could get allergic to the sun,
Couldn't you?
It was just that the sweat was tickling under my armpits and it was making a mitch and that was what I was scratching about.
It wasn't the sun at all.
Leo said,
No,
Seriously,
I think you can be allergic to flour.
And I think flour is known to cause inflammation in the joints.
That's why some people don't even eat flour.
They're gluten free.
What?
They're glutinous?
Leo said,
No,
They're gluten free.
There's gluten in the flour and people get allergic to it and it can cause inflammation and also tummy problems.
Noah said,
Well,
Let's just hope that there's no problems with this.
And anyway,
We're using just the tiniest amount.
We're making a meatballs,
He said.
River and Jesse both said,
We're making a meatballs.
Everyone's making a meatballs,
As if they were all Italian.
Tucker joined in very quickly.
Oh,
Yes,
We're making a meatballs.
Leo didn't say anything.
Can we not put the flour in the meatballs?
Noah said,
Well,
Yeah,
Probably.
I was just going to use a little bit as a binding agent.
Tucker said,
Oh my goodness,
You sound like some kind of some kind of police officer binding someone up and putting them in jail.
Noah said,
On this particular occasion,
What I mean by binding is when all the ingredients come together,
Because otherwise the meatballs might crumble and fall apart.
River said,
Let's just use eggs.
My mum uses eggs in meatballs.
Jesse said,
Yeah,
She does.
Noah said,
OK,
Then I'll use eggs instead.
Leo said,
Thank you for that,
Because I think I would have been sneezing the whole time I was eating those meatballs.
What are the meatballs made of?
Jesse started laughing.
Meat,
Tucker,
Meat.
Oh,
Yes,
Of course,
They're made of meat.
But what kind of meat?
People just call meat,
Meat.
But meat is actually some form of dead animal.
And if it's something cute like a kitten.
Oh,
Mind you,
Kittens do smell very nice.
Have you sniffed a kitten when it's been raining on it?
Kittens with rain are the like the nicest smell in the entire world.
Not that I want to eat those kittens when they've got rain on them.
No.
Bummy would shout at me.
But,
But.
What kind of meat is this meat?
Is it donkey?
Because I don't want to eat donkeys.
I met a donkey one time in a field and he was a very nice donkey.
River said that they would definitely not eat donkeys.
Definitely,
Definitely not.
It's not donkey.
It's probably something normal like pig or cow or.
Tucker said,
Stop right there.
Cows.
It's a cow.
Noah said,
Oh no,
Under his breath because the meat that they were using for the meatballs was beef and beef is cow.
Oh no,
Said Tucker.
I like cows.
I like cows too much to eat cows.
I don't think that's very nice.
It's like saying,
What's this meatball made of?
It isn't a meatball.
It isn't a meatball.
What is it made of?
He was trying to do his Italian accent.
And you say,
Noah,
You say,
It's made of dogs.
And I go,
What?
Doggies?
Like me?
Who does that?
Noah said,
Actually,
Sorry,
Tucker,
But there is places in the world where people do eat dogs.
Oh my gosh.
I think I'm going to faint.
Tucker laid down on the ground,
Feeling very dizzy and shaky and not happy at all.
Leo said,
Tucker,
Are you all right?
If anybody's going to faint,
It's me,
Not you.
Tucker said,
I just had a thought of all those dogs that I like being eaten as meaty balls.
That's so nasty.
River wet a tea towel underneath the tap and put it over Tucker's head to cool him down a little bit.
It's okay,
Tucker.
This meat's not dogs.
It's not donkeys.
And it's not cows.
Is it Noah?
Noah pulled a face at River as if to say,
Yes,
It's cows.
River said,
Oh no.
And Noah said,
Yes,
I know.
Jesse caught on to the problem.
Would it be okay if the meatballs were made of pork?
What is pork?
Said Tucker.
Pork is pig.
It's piggies?
Oh no.
Mummy was just reading a story to me and Leo the other day and it was about three little pigs and they were blowing down houses.
And I mean,
Maybe those piggies were very,
No,
They weren't blowing.
No,
I've got that wrong.
The wolf was blowing down the houses,
Not the piggies.
The piggies were trying to protect the house,
But the wolf was blowing down the houses,
Trying to get in to get the chinny chin chin hairs off the piggies.
Leo said,
That's not how the story goes.
It is.
That's what mummy said.
Mummy said that that wolf was trying to get the hairs on the chinny chin chins.
Leo said,
No,
Mum said that they,
The pigs said,
Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin will you get in to the house the pigs were talking about.
Not that the wolf wanted the hair.
Tucker,
You're confusing me.
Tucker said,
See?
But anyway,
To the point,
The point is we cannot eat those piggies.
They spent all that time trying to keep the wolves out of the house.
Now we're gonna put them in the meaty balls?
Tucker's head went back down on the ground as if he was gonna faint all over again.
I don't feel very well.
This is very,
Very depressing.
I don't think I like making the meaty balls.
I thought I was gonna have a very nice time because I love meatballs and spaghetti.
It's one of my favourites with that tomato soupy saucy stuff and then you suck on the spaghetti and it slaps all over your face and then later you've got lots and lots of tomato sauce to lick off and eat like dessert.
Yes,
It's one of my favourites but this is not one of my favourites because what could a meat ball be made out of if it's not meat that is is a piggies with the hairs on the chinny chin chins?
If it's not donkeys,
If it's not dogs,
If it's not cows because I like cows.
I just like cows.
Don't have to have a reason why I like cows.
It's not cows and it's not wet rainy kitties.
Then what is the meat in these meaty balls?
Noah said,
What about kangaroo?
People eat kangaroo or maybe maybe buffalo.
People eat buffalo.
Oh no!
Those kangaroos are so cute and if they're in those meaty balls over there in that packet then where are the baby kangaroos going to go?
Everyone thought about it and got quite sad thinking about mummy kangaroo being chopped up into meat balls and made into meat balls so that the baby kangaroo didn't have a pouch to be in anymore because it didn't have a mummy because the mummy was kangaroo meat that was now meat balls.
The whole thing was very depressing when you think about it.
Tucker had never thought about it before.
Tucker loved to munch down on practically everything.
He'd never been so selective about what he was eating.
Leo said,
Tucker what's got into you?
You don't normally think about things like this.
This is something I would be doing because I'm allergic to everything.
I have to know what's in everything like that flower making me sneeze but I mean you've never been bothered about what you're eating like this much before.
I have never really thought about it Leo.
Not too much anyway but you know one moment when you just have one of those lighty bulbs in the in your in your head not in you not in the not in the living room hanging over your head no you have a light bulb in your head and it goes ping and it turns on and then all of a sudden you're like wow there's so many dusty cobwebs in my brain so much dark dusty cobwebs my goodness me there's empty pockets and empty cans there's all sorts of clutter in there and then you go and have a good old clean up and you clean out all the corners in your mind and then your mind gets nice and clean and then when it's clean you're like oh no is this how the world works is this what's in my meaty balls poor cow pig donkey tree horse rabbit whatever it is Leo said trees yes I bet there's poor trees in those those dare meaty balls Noah said the meatballs not tree balls Tucker Tucker said exactly well maybe there's trees in them Jesse said maybe there's trees in vegetarian meatballs maybe that's what they make them out of trees and he started laughing River said what do they make vegetarian meatballs out of Tucker said trees I bet you any money those poor trees and they're screaming on their way down from the sky when the woodchoppers chop them with the chopping machines Leo said well if all the lights have gone on in your head Tucker what you gonna eat from now on I'm gonna stick to mummy's muffins she makes them every week and she makes different flavours and dad really likes them a lot and she talks all the time about how much protein powder she puts in them so they must be protein in those muffins and sometimes she puts coconut in them sometimes she puts cranberries in them sometimes she makes them out of oat and sometimes she makes them out of almond flour I've seen her she puts so many yummy things in those muffins Leo I say we go on a muffin diet maybe trees are harmed and made into muffins have you thought about that said River Oh River River you're so mean what am I gonna eat if I don't eat mummy's muffins Noah said how about we skip the meatballs and we just eat spaghetti what's in that spaghetti is that spaghetti made of worms or even worse snakes Noah said no it's not actually it's made from flour and oh no Leo said oh no I can't eat it I'm gonna have a flour reaction I'm gonna be sneezing all the way home Noah said how about you just eat the tomato sauce Tucker said oh no because who knows which animal is in that tomato sauce River said there's tomatoes in the tomato sauce that's it Tucker can we eat tomatoes Leo Leo said yes we can that's it then tomato sauce for me please Leo said I'll have a plate too please Noah River and Jesse looked at the dogs as if they were absolutely crazy
