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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.
Motivation for Me
Although I don’t do green smoothies I did eat a lot more salads. I was more aware of what I was eating. I got out and moved more, I went for a walk when weather was permitting, which is a HUGE thing for me. Thank you for encouraging me to get myself healthier. THANK YOU.
Fun group
I enjoyed the challenge with the group. I’m good doing a smoothie every morning. It was great to add variety to salads. Very positive results. Thanks!
Definitely worth a try!
I did this challenge with my husband who is allergic to dairy and nuts. I was able to make easy substitutions and it was a great experience! It was the first “challenge” I ever made it through and I think that was because it had the ingredient list clearly laid out it was obtainable with just switching one meal a day and I was interested in trying all the recipes. Even though they weren’t all our favorites I was glad we gave them a try to test out those flavor combinations. It was also nice to have 10 days of not having to plan too much for dinner which was also a HUGE incentive for me to try this out. Overall I enjoyed it very much and looking forward to whatever challenge Simple Green Smoothies comes up with next! 🙂
Great recipes and a little fun
This challenge gave you a bunch of new fun recipes to try. It made looking at salad something more than just popping open a bag of lettuce with some veggies and dressing! And it’s always fun to find new ways to challenge yourself body and mind
Holy Salad!
This challenge was so fun! I highly recommend your body will thank you for it! It was so fabulous to have 10 days of meals and 2 weeks of grocery lists I didn’t have to think about or plan myself. I generally eat a lot of meat but with these recipes I didn’t miss it at all! Thanks for such a healthy engaging experience!
RAWKIN’ Great challenge!
I am a pescatarian so I eat a lot of salads and grains already. This challenge opened up a lot more variety to me. All of the dressings will be ones that I make over and over since they were all delicious! Interesting combinations and taste experiences. Thanks so much for the inspiration!!Eating healthier fuels my passion – kayaking.
Adventurous eating
I really enjoyed the variety of salad recipes and the encouragement to keep up and make the salads and review them. The accountability was encouraging and motivating. My favorites were the potato and pasta salads. I loved the lightness and flavor of these along with incorporating lots of veggies and great dressings. I’ll be sharing the salad recipes with my children. I’m a huge Vitamix fan and make smoothies daily for my husband and 92 year old mother. There is no better blender out there for smooth smoothies! Two out of my four children have a Vitamix and the other two are saving up for one!! All have tasted my great green smoothies!! I love that many of our dressings used the Vitamix to blend the liquids. So versatile! Thanks so much for the great Salad Challenge!!
You can walk and rawk at the same time – it’s easy!
I loved this challenge! My mom used to make the same boring salad with the same boring dressing whenever we went to people’s homes for dinner which was a lot. She also used to tell me to stop being lazy and walk around the block. Thus my now-changing dislike for salads and short walks. The salad portion of this challenge was worth it for the dressings alone – yummy! I love adding a dash of maple syrup or pureed strawberries to make a dressing pop. The lemon dressings are divine. I loved the variety of salads from potato to pasta to kale. The taco salad with “walnut meat” and cashew cream is my new favorite salad but most of the others have also made it into my recipe box (I have an actual box with little recipe cards). The Support group was a fun place to share and get ideas about things like making kale taste better (rub it in seasoned olive oil). The walking/running portion of this challenge was right up my alley since I used to be a walking mentor for half marathons and did the 2,020 in 2020 Challenge with Run the Edge. I figured out that the walk to and from our local health food grocery store is exactly 1.1 miles – a perfect way to walk and rawk at the same time!
10 days of great recipes and ideas
Enjoyed all of the new ideas to keep eating fresh food and keeping it exciting and new
Rawkin’ Salad Challenge
Joining the Salad Challenge has been fun and satisfying! The salads were filling and left me with no desire to grab a sweet dessert or high carb foods. I will be keeping the recipes to try again. I love the dressings! They were my favorite to explore. I am encouraged to continue diving in to more plant based recipes and to join future challenges. Thank you for the experience!
Its a salad celebration!
For ten days, I was able to “celebrate” healthier food choices and discover new recipes that I will continue to make long after this challenge ends. I loved it ! Thank you.
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!
A salad convert!!! 🌱🥗💚
I’ve never been so happy to prep my meals before I took on the 10 day challenge. I loved the variety of the salads and I’m obsessed with amazing dressings I got to try through the recipes. My favorite salads were the strawberry mixed greens sweet & crunchy salad and the healthy pasta salad. The flavours were top-notch and made for excellent meals post-workouts. I’m truly going to miss looking through the support group activities and seeing everybody’s progress and creations. Because of my new job I started to skip my daily runs but through this challenge I forced myself to make my runs a priority and ended up with 30 miles in 10 days!! I feel healthier happier and my skin is GLOWING! I’m a salad convert and I cant wait to try more healthy and plant based foods! 🥰
