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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.
Amazing new recipes
I have been doing the smoothie challenge for 2 years and was very excited to sign up for a salad one. My partner and I did it together and for 10 days we had it as our lunch. My goal was to try new recipes. Since then the lemon and arugula (my fav) was the salad for 2 other evenings. My partner loved the taco salad that in fact was out dinner. Looking forward to a summer challenge. Jen- how about a soup challenge?❤️
Amazing Results😃
I am feeling so energized after this challenge. Can’t wait to do it again. Jen has the best ideas for tasty treats and food organization. I really needed this!
Yummy salads
The salads were wonderful. The recipes were easy to follow easy to make and tasted yummy. Thanks for the challenge.
Superfragaliscious salad challenge
Awesome challenge with really well designed flavors built into easy to follow recipes. Fun and delicious!
Healthy Living
Healthy recipes have never been so tasty. I have found each salad a culinary delight. Feel I am finally on a path to a much healthier self.
SALAD as a RAWK! (Solid as a Rock)
You work hard and get to the finish line and then wish it had not flown by so fast. This Challenge has made me stronger smarter and feeling great. Besides losing 2.6 pounds (through Day 8) I can tell I have lost inches which to me is the most important. I can tell I am stronger in my walks – hills that used to make me breathy are being conquered. When I started this challenge I was walking about 3.5 miles a day and sometimes 5 miles on a weekend day. I was probably walking 4 days a week. My average pace per mile was under 19 but not by a lot. I ate salads and literally kind of got bored with them making the same thing just about each time – like “oh let’s have a salad”. This challenge has energized and inspired me to keep going with enthusiasm. The recipes and the overall group have been solid. I have found new items that I love to eat learned how to massage kale and had fun looking at all the shared ideas. I would absolutely do another challenge. My husband and I are slowly changing old habits drinking less exercising more and trying new food options. I am going to try and make a plant-based diet more of a part of my regimen each week. The recipes make it very easy to add a protein for my husband and I love that piece of it. It was also fun to plate the food. I am a firm believer if it looks pretty it is probably going to taste wonderful. I ended up pushing my miles to an average of 4.74 per day and my average pace to 17:33. I now have a great base to maintain and push forward; just keep moving! The challenge got me organized and helped in every facet of my day to day. My husband was so supportive and did some walking with me and a great deal of chopping for me. I can’t say enough about Organic Girl Run the Edge and Simple Green Smoothies; you are all terrific individually but together you really do RAWK!
A whole new perspective
I’ll never think of salads as the same old boring lettuce tomato and ranch ever again!! I absolutely loved the diversity of the salads and how they made me feel!!
The most fun way to learn how to eat better foods!
Each salad has been beautiful to look at, as well as full of amazingly delicious and healthful ingredients our family needs to eat more of. It has been fun and inspiring to see everyone’s versions of the salad recipes each day. 🙂 We are looking forward to the next Challenge!
Fresh foods for crusty eating habits
10 new salad recipes for 10 days. And now that my fridge is full of fresh foods I am going to be eating the leftovers for another several days. Some of the recipes I’ll definitely utilize again and some I will tweak to see if we like enough to make them regular meals. Way to shake up our taco, wing, and burger rut!
Challenge & Beyond & Prioritization
I’m up for the challenge daily and prioritized my health daily by exercising and eating better daily. The recipes for foods and smoothies are awesome and will do my best to incorporate them into my daily journey. Thank you
“Fun-filled and easy to assemble excellent 10-Day Salad Challenge”
All the plant-based dinner salad recipes were highly nutritive and nourishing, very filling, easy and quick to assemble at dinner time, and above all delicious & palatable to adults and kids alike 🙂 Thank you for the great effort! God Bless everyone!!
Easy and delicious!
I enjoyed each salad especially the vegan potato salad. The shopping lists made it so easy to follow. Each salad was easy to make and was suitable to add your own spin.
Fun
Fun fun fun
Salad challenge fun
I learned a great deal about nutrition and mindful eating. Awesome challenge.
