10-Day Salad Challenge

I’m always looking for nutritious and yummy new salad ideas! Thank for the challenge! Refrigerator not quite empty.

I am loving the salads… and the thought of the salads to come. Thank you for opening up my mind to all that is possible. I look forward to bringing a salad to work for lunch every day.

I have loved the tips and guidelines, recipes and encouragement.

I loved it. I loved the variety and boldly pairing ingredients to come up with awesome tasting salads. I’m still shocked how much I loved the lemon arugula salad. Thank you for this opportunity.

I loved that I did this challenge to make & eat salads for 10 days in a row. While these took more time than I normally do for salads- I usually just chop & throw in whatever is at hand, Jen really had thought thru flavors & dressings to complement the ingredients. I never make my own dressing, but now I realize it’s not that hard or time consuming. I loved the Strawberry Arugula salad. It is something I’d feel proud to serve for company. So I got some good recipes, ate better with more vegetables, and feel like I can continue on to include more plants in my diet. All my goals were met! I have recommended it to several friends.

I really enjoyed all of the different variations of salads. I consume salads regularly and these ideas gave me inspirations to try different in gredients, Loved it!!

I didn’t tell my husband about the challenge until after I’d prepared 10 salad-based, meat-free dinners. He was happily surprised by the variations from what I usually cook (he thought I’d been unusually creative!), and even more glad when he discovered he’d dropped a bit of weight. (I did too!)

I typically don’t like salads because they are usually boring (I don’t eat meat and I don’t like vinegar). When I got the Organic Girl email about this salad challenge, I signed up immediately! These salads were different enough to keep you on track but similar enough that many of the ingredients were shared! My husband and I could also agree on the daily meal 🙂 I plan to incorporate some of these salads into our weekly meals!

I really enjoyed the variety of the salads, however, there were a few that I altered or replaced with a different salad. My favorites were the bright berry salad and the Crunchy Carrot salad. I also loved being able to make taco meat and cheese sprinkle from nuts!!!!

Literally, I don’t have much to say aside from this was a fun, easy, yet TASTY challenge, indeed. I love salads anyway, but I felt supported throughout the 10 days through emails and informative content to read. Also, I even teamed up with my sister in completing it, so that made it more fun. Thank you for the experience and for being a great support throughout! Sincerely, Michelle

I was up for this challenge so I could start my journey to being healthy. I learned so much, especially all the different salads and ingredients to make my quality of life better. I am having some health issues so this has been a start to eating healthier and exercising more. I loved all the different salads in this challenge and will be using these and more in my everyday life so I can feel better and enjoy life to its fullest!!!

I’ve always enjoyed salads but this has been a fun way of trying something I may not have made.

The 10-Day Salad Challenge was such a blessing to me! Every time I participate in Simple Green Smoothies challenges, I feel nourished, replenished and left feeling encouraged to go green Always!!! Thank you Jen and Simple Green Smoothies for opening my eyes once again to what I knew, but forgot; GREEN IS EVERYTHING!!!😉

So nice to go beyond a simple green salad. Also the dressings that came along with them were great. I don’t like dressing but i love the berry dressing from day 2

The challenge was very motivating and fun to see new takes on salads and smoothies. I read about ideas and ingredients I hadn’t considered before. Knowing I’m part of a community with the same goals was helpful and an encouragement booster.

The ideas behind the salads are great! I ate salads every day, but there were too many ingredients for me to change it up every day. The recipes were awesome though, so I’m hanging onto them.

The recipes in this challenge are delicious and totally doable. We especially loved the dressing with strawberry and basil!

This has been a fantastic challenge for our whole family. We all participated and even got extended family and friends involved. We shared photos of our delicious salad with one another and it got us jump started on eating much cleaner and healthier. We would looooove another challenge! Please keep them coming.

My focus of the challenge was on the fitness part and I have completed the fitness part of the challenge. Because I already have a meal plan subscription, I already had my meals planned out for these 10 days and didn’t make the salads. But, I enjoyed reading the posts in the Support group and seeing the pictures of everyone’s salads and I made note of which ones I would like to try in the future when I don’t already have something planned out. A couple of suggestions: 1) Might be good to have a shopping list and recipes for 1 person in addition to the one that was provided for 2 people. 2) Might be good to indicate on the shopping list which day(s) that ingredient will be used so if already have meal plans for a given day, can figure out which ingredients not to buy. If it had been easier to figure out what I needed to buy for a particular salad, I might have been able to squeeze in a couple into my normal meal plan. And a final comment, being single, the dry and canned good items will end up with a lot of waste. For example, days 6-10 uses 1/2 can of cannellini for 2 servings, so I would only use 1/4 can and have 3/4 left over. And similar for other ingredients. I was thinking there would be the same issue with the nuts and seeds and them being packaged such that would need to buy a lot more than I would need, but since those would save across weeks and would keep for the future those might be OK. But, thank you for the wonderful recipes of fruit and veggie-filled salads. I’m looking forward to trying them in the future.

V- visually appealing and tasty recipes I- invest in healthy foods for wellness B – bring friends and family along by sharing R – feeling radiant with good energy A – challenge always motivates N – need to keep the challenge going T- teach by the way you eat This challenge made me feel vibrant!!!