This is the companion guide to THE JOSHUA PROGRAM~ A Healthy Lifestyle Program for Children. Highly participative, the document includes homework assignments that empower children in meal planning, food selection, and in deciding which of their favorite bad foods, they are going to give up. The program is designed to permit the children to drive the healthy eating in the family, as parents seek to keep up with the gradual change! The program begins with a pledge of allegiance on a teleconference, with children calling-in from all parts of the country. Most participants are pre-teens.

1. Meal Planning
for Kids
with
Kids!
Author; Michelle Edmonds, M.A., M.Ed~|Serenity Weight Loss and Detoxification Program
Author of THE SERENITY CHALLENGE and THE JOSHUA PROJECT (Childrens Healthy Lifestyle Program)
From: Detox Your Mind or The Fat Will Come Back, 2014
For more info, click: http://ow.ly/oINCM

2. Homework #1: Did you make a list of your
favorite unhealthy foods yet?

3. Schedule for the 1st 30 days:
Weeks 1: Every Friday -Report your weight to your coach and report 3
new items you will remove from your list for the next week
Week 2 : Select 3 more items from unhealthy list
Start drinking a glass of veggie juice with parsley and some beets-just 8
oz per/day
Week 3: Select 3 more items from unhealthy list and report to your
coachon Friday. Continue drinking a glass of veggie juice with parsley
and some beets-just 8 oz per/day
Week 4: Select 3 more items from unhealthy list and report to your coach
on Friday . Continue drinking a glass of veggie juice with parsley and
some beets-just 8 oz per/day

4. My favorite Unhealthy Foods
List them all
You know what they are. If unsure, your
nutritional coach will be glad to help you

5. Selecting Healthy Choices
Homework #2: Check out Serenity’s Bulletin Board and select 10
healthy foods|desserts that you would like to try. Write them here. Have
fun, keep clicking until you find the recipes.
Write them down for all of the kids in the house
http://www.pinterest.com/serenityweight/serenitys-healthy-menu-picks/

6. Homework #3: After you look through the entire
Serenity Pinterest Board, plan your 1st week. Give a
copy to your coach after all the kids in the house
approve!

7. Simple
BREAKFAST
We are not sure how oatmeal got so popular, so lets talk about that first
Steel Cut Oatmeal
Do not use instant or 5 or 10 minute
oatmeal, white sugar, honey or fruit.
Use almond, soy or rice milk. Stevia for
sweetener, available in health food stores,
Whole Foods grocers, or health food
section of a supermarket
Almond slices or slivers
What did you have for dinner? That makes a great breakfast! heat in a
microwave, in a tupperware bowl. In fact,
prepare bowls in the evening, for quick
preparation
SOY or ALMOND YOGURT-1 container Any flavor-Add almond
slices, for extra protein
TIP: Ensure that you have a GLASS of vitamins,
in the morning or add the correct portion of
multiple vitamins into yogurt. Mix well, and you
have a great tasting, super healthy meal.
No more “One a-Day pills-Drink or eat vitamins

8. This skillet serves 3-4
people. The orange
things are whole
carrots, with a little of
the green stalk, sliced
vertically, in half. Then
eggs sunny-side up, with
large Italian turkey
sausage slices. Sea salt
and pepper.
Delicious and quick
SIMPLE
BREAKFAST

9. Simple LUNCH
Did you know
‘NORI” is
seaweed..
that green
stuff at the
beach?
Nori Wraps
Tip: Pak 6 in a
tupperware bowl and
carry to school for lunch
and snack.

10. Simple Lunch
VEGGIE WRAP COMBO’s
Continued
This is how it
looks when it is
ready to eat..the
yellow stuff is
hummus...yum!
Hummus Spread
works like mayo and
holds the wrap together
Hummus is a Middle Eastern and Arabic
food dip or spread made from cooked,
mashed chickpeas blended with tahini,
olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic
Make it yourself or buy already prepared
from Whole Foods or health food section
of your grocery store

11. Simple Lunch , cont’d
Try using collard green
leaves on the next page,
or add the veggies over
there, on the side, inside
these lettuce wraps, filled
with turkey slices !

12. More Simple lunch, cont’d

13. Simple Dinners
How about this fish (except
Tilapia or catfish) topped with
onions, over a bed of yellow
rice? We chose these zucchini
and carrot sticks, roasted in the
oven on a pan with extra virgin
olive oil, with salt, garlic, and any
dried herb that you might like,
such as rosemary, or oregano

14. Simple Dinners Sometimes the budget is low and everyone
is in a hurry. How about a can of turkey
chili, with 4 eggs cracked open right inside
the pot. Make sure the chili is already hot.
The green stuff is parsley leaves. You can
add green peppers too. Each person gets
one egg, so this is 4 servings
GUESS WHAT? This is a great breakfast.
So if you have enough, save some for the
morning

15. Simple Healthy
Beverages
Try fresh
squeezed
green juices
or red,
or any color!
For juice recipes
and ingredients,
click on link
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/SERENITY-s-
MEAN-GREEN-DETOX-JUICE-RECIPES.html?
soid=1110442875411&aid=hjGKPKv4ngI

16. More
Simple
beverages
Have fun over the
weekend, and make
your own FRUIT
WATER. No added
sugar guys, just fruit
and water. You may
use plain seltzer
water to make it
taste like soda. They
will last all week.
Fruit stays in the
pitcher or glasses

17. Simple Desserts
We like this
Strawberry
Parfait shake.
Use almond milk
and strawberry
frozen dessert
yogurt. Add
thawed frozen
strawberries,
about 4-6, with
a spoon and
gently stir into
the top, until
you have a swirl

18. Simple Desserts and lunch too
Container of soy or almond yogurt, any
flavor. Bag of thawed fruit and stir on top of
the yogurt. You may add nuts, like almond
slices or granola

19. Simple
Dessert
made with
your evening dose
of vitamins Yummy

20. Remember, overall, you should
follow this rule:
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off