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Adios boring salads

10-Day Challenge

10-Day Salad Challenge

4.8 · 674 reviews

Ready to turn “just a salad” into the meal you look forward to? Ten days of hearty, plant-based salads — pasta salads, fruit salads, loaded bowls — with the grocery list done and a new one waiting every morning.

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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.

Hands tossing a colourful pasta salad in a bowl

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.

A string bag of fresh vegetables and herbs on a counter

Groceries

One grocery list

Split across two trips, days 1–5 and 6–10, so the spinach never turns before you reach it.

A kale salad with a creamy dressing, tossed in a bowl

Prep

A salad prep guide

Dressings made ahead in little jars, vegetables chopped and waiting. Then it is grab, toss and eat.

A woman standing in her kitchen holding a big bowl of salad

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

Fresh tomato and mozzarella salad with tuna slices and greens on table.★★★★★

Awesome challenge, with really well designed flavors built into easy to follow recipes.

Lanore Hahn
Smiling woman with yellow top—healthy smoothie lifestyle.★★★★★

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
Woman standing with arms outstretched in a green field with snow-capped peaks in.★★★★★

Going green never looked and felt so good.

Carol L.
Mixed greens, avocado, broccoli and quinoa bowl with fork on white plate.★★★★★

I’ve always been a big salad maker, and I still enjoyed the new ideas I got from the challenge.

Emily C.
Smiling woman holds two ripe avocados in a bright kitchen for smoothie recipe.★★★★★

I did this challenge with my husband and it was a great experience.

Alyssa C.
Smiling couple in red tops enjoying smoothie moment.★★★★★

I have never strictly followed a meal plan in my life, and did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did.

Amy
Healthy avocado bowls with greens, tomatoes and crispy toppings.★★★★★

My partner and I did it together, and for ten days we had it as our lunch.

Adriana Carvalhal
Healthy green salad in glass bowl with feta and herbs, beside red smoothie on a桌.★★★★★

The 10-day salad challenge was an excellent way to get back on track.

Grace

A 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

Jen Hansard holding a green smoothie
Pages from the 10-Day Salad Challenge guide fanned out: the cover, the ten-day menu, the shopping lists and two recipe pages

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
Total value $75$17

FAQs

How many does each salad serve?

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.

Why is the shopping list split in two?

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.

Are these meals, or side dishes?

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.

Can I prep ahead?

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.

Do I have to stop my daily smoothie?

Not at all. Keep drinking one right through the challenge — I will. The more plants, the merrier.

What do I actually get for $17?

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.

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Easy, quick recipes

I like how all the salads were quick and easy to make. It was nice to be able to put a salad together when I didn’t have time to cook a full meal.

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Cara J
3.31.2022
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Like new recipe ideas

I liked the challenge and recipe ideas. It would be great to have had a grocery list up front (sorry if you provided one and I missed it). I don’t live near a grocery store, so it wasn’t feasible to run and get the ingredients that I didn’t have each day. Therefore, I didn’t participate in making the salads daily and commenting on them.

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LeAnna Scott
3.31.2022
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Not my best performance

I had good intentions. I eat strictly gluten free, so when I saw that many of the salads weren’t gluten free, I lost interest. My other excuse is that I nearing the end of a 90 day thyroid healing protocol. It includes many fruits and veggies so I felt it best to focus on that.

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Tove P.
3.31.2022
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Great Challenge – feel great!

Great recipes, great challenge! Feel great and have tools to increase health!

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Betsy Flahive
3.31.2022
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Eating salad everyday is NOT boring!

I loved the variety and versatility of these recipes. Most of the prep was pretty easy, which just goes to show that eating healthy is not hard, it just takes intentionality. I will be making all of these again!

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Jennifer Alexander
3.31.2022
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Beautiful! Tasty! & Fun!

I love this challenge! Not only does every recipe have a beautiful photo to go with it, so I know if mine came out close to what it’s supposed to look like, they taste amazing! I don’t feel bloated anymore! Yay… So grateful for Jen and Team for all the great support, I’m on my way to a healthier me!

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Kristin Hinzman
3.31.2022
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Fun and helpful

I loved how fun the recipes are, no boring salads. Very helpful to feel excited about eating healthy foods

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Val N
3.31.2022
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The End…..NOT

I bought the 10 day challenge recipe book just before the salad challenge began. I’m glad I did! All of the recipes are world’s away from my humdrum salads. I learned through this challenge that I can eat better without sacrificing flavor. I still am and forever will be a “meat and potatoes” girl just with more plants added🙂. And now that I have the book. I have every smoothie, salad and soup recipe at my fingertips. I highly recommend getting one, if you haven’t already!

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Holly
3.31.2022
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Delicious!

I recently became interested in eating more salads and was excited to see this challenge! Every salad was delicious and filling. I honestly didn’t even miss the meat, and I will be making these salads again!

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Sarah R.
3.31.2022
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Live the life of Green

I really enjoyed all the salads. I especially like the variety that I wouldn’t normally choose. I will continue to enjoy all the flavorness!

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Chris W
3.31.2022
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Challenge smallenge

It was so nice to get out of my same old boring routine and try something new!

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Amanda R
3.31.2022
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Spring into Salads!

I was a little apprehensive going into this challenge because I didn’t know whether I’d realistically have the time to do all 10 salads in 10 days, but I quickly fell in love with the salads and learning a few new tricks, so I made the time every evening! I utterly enjoyed every single one of the salads and dressings and can’t wait to continue making them all again. I also found that it was easy to inspire and excite others between describing the salads and sharing my own photos of what I’d made and can’t wait to continue to do so with my own recipes in the future. This was the perfect way to welcome Spring!

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Maggie C
3.31.2022
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not just your basic salads

I really enjoyed this challenge! It was so nice to have all the recipes, meal prep tips and shopping lists sent right to me. Took away a lot of the hassle I usually feel about making my own salads!

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Alyssa M
3.31.2022
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Great recipes

I really liked the two recipes I received. I was looking forward to trying all of them

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carolyn
3.31.2022
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Rawking Deliciousness Challenge

Once again Jen and her Team have put together another great Challenge and Challenge it was. The combinations of tastes, texture and foods, some of which I haven’t put together before and then enjoyed, that took me out of my usual salad range. The support and friendliness in the FB Group was just so good, people sharing their photos and saying what they changed, liked, loved or didn’t like (myself included 😊) was so reassuring. The feedback was always encouraging and positive, what more could you want or need from a Challenge. Well there was more, an extra challenge, Run the Edge, this just took it up a notch to another level, the Team at RTE were very supportive and responsive to questions asked. Well done to everyone involved in this Simple Green Smoothie Salad Challenge.

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Helen Lee-Williams
3.31.2022
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