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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.
Fun challenge!
I enjoyed learning new recipes and try new ingredients being encouraged to be active and seeing other participants creations/modifications. Thank you!
Awesome Power
Super enjoyable! This is my very first time joining the salad challange. I had wanted to join other times and finally did it. I prepared my adult kids ahead of time that I will be making myself salads and they were free to have some. My son whom had never liked to eat salads had a good serving of the Strawberry Mixed Greens. Incorporating greens nuts and vegetables is always my goal but we get in a rut of what the family usually likes and we don’t get around to add those God given delicious and nutritional gifts. Thanks for helping out and preparing these challenges. My favorite was the Healthy Pasta salad I did prepare the dressing a day ahead so that the flavors infused. Also I liked that the salads could be easily modified where I could add a little of the left over herbs greens and herbs if we felt it would go well. I will forever be grateful for your time and effort to help us to be nutritionally happy.
Great Motivator!
I am so glad I joined this challenge. I have been eating plant based-ish for a couple of years but it was becoming a little routine and boring for me. I loved exploring the different salad ideas and discovering my likes and dislikes. Oddly enough I found that even though I love carrots in a soup or roasted I do NOT like them in a salad. My favorites were the salad with berries especially Strawberry. Thank you for showing me that fruit with greens is a good flavorful option to get more plants that n my diet.
Mean and Green
Great salads enjoyed the variety and the feeling of doing good for my body. It did take a lot of grocery shopping to have all the ingredients on hand but felt it was worth it after a few days in. Thanks again for all the delicious receipes.
Crunchtastic!!
I really enjoyed trying new salad dressing made by Me!! The salads were fun and I will be able to continue getting my greens in now!! Thanks!! I love a challenge! I ate my greens and ran my miles!
Hooray for Veggies!
I loved the challenge. I had challenges doing the challenge but the salads were delicious and filling and it was fun connecting with a like-minded community of supporters. More energy was an added bonus.
Fun with Salads
I must say having this experience was exciting an refreshing to try all different kinds of salads plus I got to add a few of my own ideas in the mix. This one I really enjoyed doing this & I love salads it made it more exciting to try this challenge. I will keep using the salads for fun and eats. Keep on Rawkstaring !!!!
Salad? Yes|please!
What a great way to jump into Spring and Summer and get into the habit of eating more salads. I love how refreshing it is to eat a large plate of veggies and batch cook assorted proteins to add on. When I don’t feel like turning the oven on salads are there for the win!
Great variety of fun|healthy salads!
I love salads and having recipes to add to my salad rotation was great! My family loved the Potato Salad the most! Great side dish and much healthier than the recipe I am used to. Thank you!
Simply Amazing Salads!
At first I wasn’t sure about some of the ingredients but as the challenge progressed and seeing others post their great reviews and support was an inspiration to try new ingredients! Plus I got in 10 days of fitness – 23 miles plus my gym workouts! I did all 10 days of salads and my favs were the taco and Caesar salads. I just got my copy of Simple Green Smoothies and excited to do my own 10 day smoothie challenge! Thank you!
Salad again! YES!!
Absolutely love making my own salad dressings but wouldn’t be as successful without SGS! Everyday was a new delicious salad experience! I have my favorites (the crunchy carrot salad) but they were all a wonderful medley of goodness. Thanks SGS!
veggin it up
fabulous
Thanks for helping me get healthy!
From smoothies to salads – you’re really helping me learn to eat better. I didn’t know where to start and then found your website. I’m buying things at the store and eating things I’d only heard of before. I’m 61 years old. You’re never too old to make changes and healthy choices.
Creative, delicious, easy and supportive!
I joined this challenge not knowing how much I would get out of it, but hoping for more salad ideas. I had participated in a smoothie challenge before which was good so I signed up for the 10 day salad challenge. Wow! Both husband and I have been pleasantly surprised by every salad recipe. I also loved that they weren’t all “green” salads and the potato salad was one of my favorite, because I never would have made that one my own. All the dressings are delicious and even though neither of us are big on fruit in green salads, the mix was always good and the strawberry vinaigrette was amazing! If you aren’t sure about signing up, just try it! The challenge also had a Facebook support group that was amazing and very helpful if you had questions or could not find an ingredient. This was just what I needed to get out of my winter food rut.
