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This challenge is for you if…
Ten days, ten salads, and the shopping already worked out. Here’s who it’s really for.
Your salads have gone boring
The same leaves and bottled dressing every time. Ten days of recipes that taste like you meant it.
You want a real meal, not a side
Pasta salads, grain bowls, roasted vegetables — hearty enough to be lunch and dinner.
You want more vegetables in your day
The easiest way to eat a lot of them, without turning the oven on most nights.
You hate wasting produce
One grocery list for the whole ten days, so the greens get used before they turn.
Lunch is the meal you skip
Something ready in the fridge beats whatever is quickest at one o’clock.
You like doing it with other people
A challenge with a start date, daily emails, and a crowd doing it alongside you.
What’s inside the challenge
Ten days of salads worth looking forward to, with the thinking already done.
Menu
10-day salad menu
A new one every day — Healthy Taco, Vegan Potato, Kale Caesar, Bright Berry. Each serves two, so dinner leaves lunch behind.
Groceries
One grocery list
Split across two trips, days 1–5 and 6–10, so the spinach never turns before you reach it.
Prep
A salad prep guide
Dressings made ahead in little jars, vegetables chopped and waiting. Then it is grab, toss and eat.
Emails
Motivation emails
Encouragement, quick tips and reminders from me, start to finish. We’re in this together.
What others think
Hear from others who did the 10-day salad challenge
★★★★★Awesome challenge, with really well designed flavors built into easy to follow recipes.
Lanore Hahn
★★★★★I’ve always thought of salads as something you just throw together, so I really didn’t know what I’d been missing.
Kristine G
★★★★★Going green never looked and felt so good.
Carol L.
★★★★★I’ve always been a big salad maker, and I still enjoyed the new ideas I got from the challenge.
Emily C.
★★★★★I did this challenge with my husband and it was a great experience.
Alyssa C.
★★★★★I have never strictly followed a meal plan in my life, and did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did.
Amy
★★★★★My partner and I did it together, and for ten days we had it as our lunch.
Adriana Carvalhal
★★★★★The 10-day salad challenge was an excellent way to get back on track.
GraceA note from Jen
Fuel your passion
It started with one green smoothie. That was the whole plan — one a day, every day, and let it add up. I was exhausted, stressed out and frustrated with my body, and a smoothie was the one thing I could manage.
Smoothies turned into soups, soups turned into salads, and eventually it turned into this. Somewhere along the way I stopped surviving each day and started living it — a backyard family farm, running across the Grand Canyon twice in a single day, hiking to the top of the tallest waterfall in North America with my kids.
What I’ve learned from all of it is that repetition and focus are what make results happen. So ten days of salads, one after another, will get you good at this — confident making salads that are filling, full of flavor, and that actually taste good.
Jen Hansard
Creator of Simple Green Smoothies · best-selling cookbook author
10-Day Salad Challenge
Ten days of salads, one printable guide
- 10-Day Salad Menu$10
- Done-for-you grocery list$25
- Salad prep guide$15
- Full-color interactive PDF$25
FAQs
Two. Enjoy one for dinner and the other as lunch leftovers the next day, or do the challenge with someone and have exactly the right amount each day. The shopping list is worked out on that basis.
So your produce doesn’t go bad. You buy only what you need for the first five days, then shop again for days six to ten. There’s nothing enjoyable about opening a bag of rancid spinach.
Both, and that’s deliberate. Fruit salads, potato salads, garden salads — some are filling enough to be dinner on their own, others are better alongside something. It’s up to you which way you take each one.
Yes, and I’d recommend it. Make the dressings ahead and keep them in small airtight containers, and chop most of the vegetables and fruit in advance — just wait to wash until you’re ready to eat. Three recipes want nuts soaked the night before, so set a phone reminder.
Not at all. Keep drinking one right through the challenge — I will. The more plants, the merrier.
A ten-day salad menu, a done-for-you grocery list split across the two shopping trips, a salad prep guide, a full-colour interactive PDF, and a motivation email from me each day. It’s yours to keep and cook from again.
Reviews
What people say after ten days of salads.
Excted!
I’m always looking for nutritious and yummy new salad ideas! Thank for the challenge! Refrigerator not quite empty.
Eating well
Fun challenge, even if it was a bit hard for me to maintain.
10 Day Salad Challenge
I enjoyed the salad recipes and was excited to try something new. The flavors were amazing and how filling they were. Several I will be adding to my recipes to make again! Thank you for getting me to think outside the box! Great job!
Salad days
I found the challenge to be very enjoyable. Was nice to try new recipes that add to my playbook of foods to have more regularly.
Incredible recipes!
I absolutely loved this challenge! The 2 serving size portion was perfect, the dressings all came together quickly. The fact that it’s easily adaptable to flavors we enjoy, and what we have on hand, is great and made it easy to accomplish. One of my favorite things about SGS has always been their listing of substitutions. Thanks for hosting this delicious challenge, the Taco Salad was my winner, Kale Caesar pretty close behind, and I look forward to making these recipes for a long time!
Loved it! Next time let’s do 20 days!
Great motivation to stay healthy with this nice little challenge.
Salads for days…10 days, that is!
I have been doing these SGS cleanses, resets and challenges for almost a year now and I always look forward to the next one. This salad challenge reminded me that salads are not always composed of leafy greens and really expanded my horizons. My 17 yr old daughter even agreed to do it with me this time! Our favorites were the taco salad (she used ranch dressing instead of the cashew cream though) and the pasta salad. I also really enjoyed the strawberry mixed greens. My daughter’s least favorite was the vegan potato salad and the lemon arugula salad. She’s decided she doesn’t like arugula! I’m thankful to have tried new things that I never would have tried without this challenge. Looking forward to the spring cleanse up next!!!
A great jump start to a healthy spring
I have done a few of Jen’s challenges, I loved this one. It helped me meal prep healthy lunches for 2 week and added in so many new recipes to my rotation. The Kale Caesar, Healthy Taco Salad, Healthy Pasta Salad and of course the Bright Berry Salad were my absolute favorites. I could not pick just one. By meal prepping even just the salads for the week it set me up for eating healthier the rest of the day. Having the community for tips and support makes a huge difference in actually following through with the healthy eating. I just felt better eating cleaner during this challenge, I can’t wait for the next one.
Greens to fit in your jeans!
I loved all the salad recipes! My favorite was the strawberry basil dressing, so light and refreshing. It’s going to be a staple in my fridge for salad. Having the recipes will keep me on track to get back in favorite jeans!
Taking salad to a new level
I loved loved loved all the different salad ideas. I’m not creative and would never have thought to put some of these ingredients together or the various dressing we made. My favorite salad, hands down, has to be the taco salad. Nice way to kick off the spring!
So fun and exciting!
I loved the 10 day challenge, it was most certainly a challenge. But also so fun an engaging. Loved it!!
trying new things!!
I did this challenge to try new recipes and to see if I would enjoy meatless meals….i didn’t think I would like it (I’m a big fan of eating meat at every meal) but i really enjoyed the recipes and definitely feel this will help me replace some of my meals with meatless options!! It was a fun way to get involved and to try these different recipes—also gave me ideas of my own that I can’t wait to try!
Yummy salads
I really enjoyed eating a salad every day for 10 days. All the recipes were amazing! I will definitely continue eating daily salads during Spring and Summer. Thank-you!
A very green finish line
It was tasty and interesting trying new vegetables and combining ingrdients that I wouldve never considered before the challenge. I will be definitely making these salads over again and again to enjoy..
Lettuce be happy and healthy!
My teen daughter and I LOVE salads, but don’t make them as often as we should since we have become bored with our same old routine of them. This challenge opened us up to some new combinations that we were happy to indulge in. It was a very welcome addition to our mealtimes. We have some new favorites and are now inspired to play around with even more ingredient combinations to keep us motivated!
