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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.
Salads aren’t just lettuce
I didn’t like all the salad but that is an individual thing. This challenge has given me ideas of how to combine my favorite fruits and veggies. The dressing recipes were the best they added so much flavor to the salads.
Love my greens
Always happy to have an excuse to eat more salad, or throw some greens into just about anything. Thanks for the support—it was fun!
Game On For The Greens! 🥬🥑🥬
Going green never looked and felt so good! So glad I chose to jump into all-things-green and do a deeper dive into creatively challenging myself with each & every salad! I’ve always been a fan of homemade salad dressings and am happy to have found several I’ll be using from here on ~ especially the cashew cream variations! My favorite was most definitely the Vegan Taco Salad as I love lots of crunch and color ~ and was surprisingly pleased with the vegan taco meat. Who knew soaked walnuts would do the trick and hold the flavors as well or better than ground beef! Just an all-around 1st Place in my new repertoire of salads. Doing this challenge together with hundreds of others and seeing the post and pictures along the way made the challenge even more do-able with a great support system to lean on when needed. Thank you Simple Green Smoothies for inviting ~ and challenging us along on the journey to new levels of plant based living!
Easy Plan to Begin the Journey of an Authentically Healthy Life
This salad challenge was a simple and easy way to take baby steps towards a more powerfully healthy life. Each day included a new salad recipe. Each recipe was flexible to allow for adjustments. I honestly felt like I was a foodie chef as each recipe included combinations or ingredients I might not have otherwise considered. The salads were delicious and gave me new recipes that I will include in my meal plans going forward. The challenge also included a light exercise element. I was unsure of how I would be able to do this part of the challenge because I had a fractured right foot and was in a boot and walked with a cane. If I can find a way to do it with these restrictions anyone can. And I found ways to have fun with it.
Salad a go go
This was a great way to get people hyped up about getting fit for the summer. I loved the challenge because I was able to get some recipes that were fun filling and different. I hope that you will do this again.
My first Rawkstar Challenge
I like to challenge myself. These past ten days broke the monotony of day to day eating and living. Usually I start my mornings with a cup of coffee but the plant based diet gave me the energy needed to perform my job as a busy healthcare provider. My favorite salads were the sweet and fruity ones. Nuts seeds and beans added healthy fiber. The dressings for each salad were simple to make and made each night taste different. Preparing for each day was fun and eating healthier meals was the best. Thank you for changing my life by exploring the many diverse ways of eating a plant based diet.
Go Green
Started each day with a smoothie and ate more salads.
Real Food=Real Energy
Wow! Can’t believe I am craving smoothies and salads these days. I don’t have to reach for caffeine in the afternoon because I am feeling GREAT! Loved the salads and will definitely continue this in my food choices.
Kale Yeah!
Easy to follow recipes made them fun to prepare plus the shopping list just made it that much easier to follow. Summer is coming and I want to look my best. I am disciplined in walking at least 7 miles a day and by tweaking my nutrition this will make a powerful impact on overall well-being. Thanks for providing this challenge; let’s keep going!
Everyone Wins!
Excellent experience with the 10-Day Salad Challenge! Not only was every salad a winner in our family, but we each walked away feeling like winners because of how we felt physically and mentally. We can confidently feel better about ourselves and our food choices. In the past, I thought making salad at home was too much work. This completely changed my mind! I planned dinners around salads and have no plans to stop. I am confident my family will be eating more green foods on a regular basis thanks to this fun, easy and super tasty challenge!
Chop to It
Great way to get some healthy meals in the rotation!
Greeny
Helped me feeling more energized every day!
I Never Thought of That
I joined this thinking it would be just some fun mix ins for salads and I’d have a few new ideas. Wow! It was much more than that. Seeing the recipes for different salads, I kept thinking “I never would have thought of that!” Definitely will be using some of these recipes after the challenge is over.
Excellent Recipes, Great Habits
I fell back in love with salads! I’m not sure I was ever really in love with them, but this challenge made me realize how easy and filling they can be. And the variety! I really enjoyed each salad, especially the Lemon Arugula Salad and the Starwberry Mixed Greens. I also really liked keeping myself accountable for salads and getting at least a mile in every day. The only thing I wished I got more of was emails. I got an email about every other day, but would have appreciated daily emails, even if they were short.
