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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.
10-day Salad Palooza
I thought the salad challenge was well laid out. I appreciated the shopping list to ensure everything stayed fresh. The recipes were fun and unique. There was variety and things I hadn’t tried. I love pasta salads, so that was probably my favorite. There were a couple recipes I had to tweak due to dietary restrictions, but overall, it was a success. I fully expect to continue using some of these recipes on a more regular basis.
Great recipes
I really enjoyed participating-ish in the challenge. I couldn’t do them on the day because I’m not close to a grocery store to get the items I didn’t have. But the few I did try were delicious and plan on trying more soon.
Greens are the new ME
It’s inspiring. Eating healthy with lots of plants sends my soul soaring. It just takes time to learn the habits that will be sustainable and bounce back when I get defeated (like when one of my dishes wasn’t tasty). My intention is balance. Balance of the areas in my life so cooking and meal prepping is paramount versus being left by the side of compost bin. Thank you!✨
Salad never tasted sooooooo good!
I was skeptical that all these salads would be good. Some ingredients I had never tried before in a salad. I also thought of a salad as a side vs. a whole meal. Boy was I wrong. Each salad was a new taste experience. I loved the taco salad. No “dressing” – the cashew cream and the salsa as dressing were awesome. One of my kids suggested putting the whole thing in a wrap. This was definitely a meal, as was the pasta salad, sweet and crunchy salad, lemon arugula salad. The potato salad was a big hit….as were all the others. After the first couple of recipes I started to double what I made for the family because everyone wanted it for lunch the next day. My salads will never be boring again. It was fun to experiment with fresh new ideas and flavours.
Great Way to Experiment with New Veggies
I really liked the opportunity to explore cooking with veggies I don’t normally use, such as fennel bulb. I actually didn’t care for it much, but just trying it was fun and exciting. I loved the shopping lists divided into two weeks and doing the challenge with a group of people was motivational. I found that most of the dressings were too sweet for my liking, so I improvised along the way (e.g. skipped the maple syrup in the strawberry dressing). Thanks for putting the 10-day salad challenge together!
Greens make the Means (for a better life)
I’ve always enjoyed salads but this has been a fun way of trying something I may not have made.
The Best Salad Challenge EVER!!!!!!!
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!!!😉
Bright mornings
The Challenge helped to stay focus by planning what would be eaten the next day. That way if a trip to the store was necessary, there was no time taken away from the meal planning & breaking up the day (if you forgot or ran out of items on the list). Variety was important & this Challenge provided that. What a delicious way to lose weight.
Trying new things
Still not much of a smoothie person (it’s a texture mouth-feel thing), BUT loved trying the new recipes and some of the OG options that I usually didn’t buy.
Healthy green adventure
It was interesting to try new salad ideas. They all looked great. I could not eat some of them because they have things in them that don’t fit my keto diet. I did enjoy the ones I could eat. It is always a good idea to keep an open mind about new salad ideas.
Kickstart to more veggies
This challenge was just what I needed to get back in the habit of planning meals (and packing lunch). I am now on a path to better, more veggie filled eating.
A great motivation
this encouraged me to eat totally more healthy. I was happy to see that you are encouraging others to do the challenge and also change their eating habits.
Open your eyes and health to new salad choices
My family and I really enjoyed eating our way through the 10-Day Salad Challenge. We ate more salads and certainly tried many new recipes. Most of them were excellent and only a few rated a 3 out of 5. One of our favorites, much to our surprise, was the Lemony Caesar Salad and we liked the ones with berries and the potato salad a lot too.
Walk On The Wild Side
The salads were absolutely delicious! As an avid eater of salads, it was fabulous to incorporate a menu of awesomeness in my daily intake. Adding a mile or more of daily walks through the area, were lovely as Spring made its debut.
Healthy plants, happy dance, shrunk my pants!
This 10-day challenge was transforming for me! I’m a diabetic and like everyone, need eat healthy and move after I eat. I’ve always liked salads, and don’t use recipes much, so this was nice to try different combinations and dressings. It was inspiring to hear from others; how they managed to get salads made and get some kind of movement in each day. I made sure to keep it going when we traveled to family and that was due to commiting to the challenge! We even got out for a walk when we had a rare rain here in California! Sometimes my movement was as simple as a dance around the house before we’d go walk. It definitely kept me from going out for some of our meals. Thank you for the salad challenge and providing so much healthy variety! I did appreciate hearing from others and I hope to continue on a journey that balances my blood sugars, keeps me in good shape and tastes great too!
