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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.
Greens For Life
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!!!
Healthy and Delicious
I really loved this challenge because it was so fun trying all the delicious salads and a great way to eat healthy. This was a fun challenge for myself and I loved the great recipes.
Going Greener, growing stronger
Loved all of the recipes. I made modifications to most of them to allow for foods that don’t agree with me, but then I would think everyone does that! It was nice to receive new ideas and things to try. I got my steps (or mile) in every day except for one and that’s because it rained most of the day. I did increase my veggie intake, which was my main purpose for participating.
Challenging but fun!!
It has been an incredible challenging 10 days with making new salads each day, but has been fun and enjoyable. Loved learning new salads and eating healthy. Some I had grilled shrimp or grilled chicken on to make it more of a full meal. They were all filling and satisfying. My husband was very good in having a new menu for his dinners and did well. His favorite was the Healthy Taco Salad. Mine was the Lemon Arugula Salad of which I added the grilled shrimp. Very tasty and yummie. The were all good except the potato salad. Did not like that one as I am used to my German grandmothers recipe for potato salad. Other than that, a great experience and thank you so much for doing this. Sandi
Gotta love salads
Loved that there were so many options to spice up our salads and make healthier choices. I appreciate the effort that went into finding these and all the extra links for recipes. It was fun to read through and make these, or pin them to make at a later date. I found it a bit confusing on how to enter the contest: do you post your comments on social media through facebook, the website, instagram or does posting a comment on someone else’s recipe count? Either way, thanks for the fun contest and recipes!
Amazing Mental Health Transformation
The fact that my mental health changed for the better, because of this challenge is amazing! I was not only healthier but my mood changed. I was more physically active and proactive in doing all my daily tasks! Loved it and definitely continuing this challenge on my own! Go Green!
Many awesome discoveries
The recipes in the challenge took me out of my comfort zone in a positive way. I love the strawberry dressing in the Mixed Greens Salad!
Beautiful salad recipes!
Thanks for doing this salad challenge. The salad recipes were beautiful!
Turning green
The 10 day salad challenge was awesome. The recipes were really good and so easy to make and prep ahead. I feel so healthy after doing these challenges. Keep up the good work and looking forward to the next one. Linda
Worth every penny!
This salad challenge was really fun! My family is largely dairy-free, so it was great to get some recipes that I didn’t have to alter, or figure out substitutions. We didn’t love all of the recipes as written, but every one is worth trying again with some tweaks for our tastes. The Facebook support group and extra challenge to move each day were really helpful with accountability. Would definitely recommend to others, and I will be on the lookout for the other challenges (smoothie, soup, etc.).
New Salad Fanatic
This was a great challenge idea! Whenever I make salads, I tend to stick to the same types of ingredients, so it can feel monotonous at times. I love that this stretched me to try new things I usually wouldn’t try or have! I also like that it included both fruits and vegetables to make things more interesting. My favorite recipe was the strawberry mixed greens salad. All the recipes were approachable and I found some new regular recipes I can use for lunches or parts of dinner. I loved the smoothie challenges, so it’s nice to keep doing them, but for different meals! Thanks for all the great ideas!
Becoming a Herbivore!
This challenge came at a perfect time. My daughter and I decided to radically cut our consumption of meat products. We had been at it for about six weeks when the challenge started. What I was finding was many of the recipes I came across were very similar. This challenge had a great variety in taste and flavour. My favorites was the kale Cesar salad and the taco walnut meat salad. I did enjoy the berry salad from day 6 . Todays berry salad is for later today. I really enjoyed trying all the different ones. A few will stay in my repertoire for sure!
Salad? So glad!
This was a tasty challenge. Many of the salads were amazing! Some I altered slightly to my taste. Salads are a great meal. There is so much you can do with salads and such a wide variety of thing that can be added to mixed greens to make an awesome meal. I actually looked forward to each days salad!
Best tasty challenge ever!
This was an easy and tasty challenge to head into the spring. I appreciate the variety of salads to keep me full and satisfied.
Healthy and delicious challenge
This was really nice to be a part of. It was great to get new recipes to try and to see some modifications people shared in the group to get the recipes to meet their taste or diet needs. Some recipes were better than others or maybe just more my type, but overall this was a great challenge. I try to eat lots of fruits and vegetables and this gave me some extra motivation. Kale salad, yum!
