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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.
New salad dressing bananza!
I enjoyed this challenge allowing me to branch out with new flavors. I travelled out of state the second week so I couldn’t fully participate but I am keeping the recipes to make in the future!
Eye Opener
I’m a foodie and a healthy eater but this challenge opened my eyes to some new eating experiences and food combinations. Had to adapt some recipes because of allergies but they still proved tasty and yummy. My favorite by far was the walnut taco salad. Made that several times; very impressed with how much it tastes like real taco meat. Looking forward to next salad challenge.
Fun|Positive and Delicious Challenge
A very enjoyable lifestyle and fitness challenge that felt like like a foodie recipe fest. The 10 days flew by quickly and I gained new goals NOT new pounds! I increased my steps and averaged over 7500 steps per day. The fitness reminders made me keep up my daily step goals despite my reluctance some days. The smoothie and salad recipes were scrumptious and I loved the variety as I was getting into a boring rut with my morning smoothie ingredients. I particularly enjoyed the Healthy Pasta Salad…hearty and crunchy with so many veggies. I have included a photo of my green salad and my favourite blender!
Green Goddess
Felt my interior organs were being treated at a 5 star spa. Delicious fresh creative meals. If chefs knew what I was doing I would have been hired.
🥬 🥕 My 10 Days at Kale University 🥕 🥬
What I learned: 🥕 How to meal prep salads like a boss 🍓 how to make 10 different dressings from scratch 🥒 My family (our 3 year old two year old and two adults) approved 80% of the salads 🫐 That a salad doesn’t have to look or be a certain way. 🍎 That I want to go plant-based eventually with my eating I loved 💕… 🥗 how tasty each salad was and how vibrant they looked with fresh whole food plant-based ingredients 💜 how just one salad or more a day made me feel so energetic and vibrant too! ❤️ the community was so fun to interact with other people going in the same journey!
Rawkin Salads 🥗
I loved this challenge and the recipes were yummy! Not every recipe was my fav but I enjoyed trying new things and the support group was fun!
Exercise and eat healthy
I rode my bicycle a lot in this great Florida weather. I loved the salad recipes. My favorite was the one with avocado and that real strawberry dressing.
Yummy Salads
I love seeing all the different salads. it was great experimenting with different foods I would’ve never thought to put in the salads. I will continue using the recipes for the salads. A++ challenge!!!
Fun and Fabulous!!
I love Vitamix green smoothies salads and Challenges…so this 10-Day Challenge has been incredible! I have been participating in the background and have appreciated the daily encouragement and the delicious recipes! Thank you for all the thought and effort that has gone into providing this Challenge. I’m a health coach and I know how much energy it takes to create and run a successful Challenge. Also Vitamix is my favorite and I will forever sing its praises! Thank you for a fun and fabulous 10 days!
I’m enjoying the daily emails with recipes.
Everyday I’ve tried a new smoothie recipe for fun. It’s been great!
10 day yum yum challenge
I loved most of the salads. There were a few that wasn’t my favorite. That being said I love the challenge and new salad recipes. It was fun to see other peoples twist on things. These salads were so easy and quick to do it was also very easy on my belly but still hitting all the flavor note that you would want.
In lightening
Found some great recipes to had to my daily routine to introduced healthily and interesting choice to my boring routine. I am amazed had how ingredients that I would never think or consider putting together work for some magical tastes Thanks to all involved for your time and knowledge Much appreciated Terry King
Spring has sprung in a salad bowl
I enjoyed the salad recipes, using most of the recipe ingredients with ones l had on hand. I had some glitches with not being able to get back in and leave reviews, nor get back into the fitness challenge section ,but overall I enjoyed the challenge and the kick off to spring and l look forward to the start of local produce coming into abundance.
Easy Nutritious Salad Variety
Hi there!! Even though I arrived to the challenge late, I’ve had a great time seeing what other people have thought of the recipes. When I think of salad, I tend to think just greens but love how the salads were not all focused on greens, like the Crunchy Carrot or Vegan Potato Salad. I also love how many of the salad dressings are made with staple pantry items. Thanks so much for sharing such yumminess that is easy to prepare and enjoy! I can’t wait to make more 🙂 I’ll also get my son involved in helping in the kitchen. He hates when I make him help for more than 20 minutes haha, so these recipes will be perfect!
