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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.
Where’s the Beef?
Enjoyed my 10 day challenge but often missed the daily link to the recipes. I’m not sure what happened some days I would get them other days not. I would be willing to do this challenge again.
Appreciate the Enthusiasm|but Room for Improvement
I didn’t always want to make the exact salad that was promoted each day. Many were too sweet; they also don’t all use seasonal ingredients and/or what I have on hand. Therefore it seemed too prescriptive. I’d suggest offering more flexibility in the future. Also I’d suggest promoting local meet-ups (eg potlucks group walks) in cities where multiple participants live so this could be more engaging.
Salad Shenanigans
It was indeed a challenge! And a welcome one. A time to reset a time to commit to structure and discipline with learning and tastebud joy mixed in! A recipe for success. It was also a wonderful experience shared with my family spending time cooking together and exploring new food combinations and completely new foods (walnut meat!). It feels good to complete the challenge and I look forward to the next! Let’s get up to some shenanigans again soon 🙂
Fresh Start!
I am so happy that I found this 10-Day Challenge which has now turned into a “lifetime commitment.” This challenge has opened my mind to many different things not only amazing new recipes(which is why I signed up) but I also gained new confidence in trying things that I never thought I would. It has also allowed me to be more committed to myself. Not only for me but for my family as well. Many of the new recipes will be added to our weekly meals…even the kids enjoyed them! Thank you for putting this together and helping me bring a large variety of new challenges into our home. The daily posts were a huge inspiration to even “play” with the recipes given and create new ideas. My favorite so far has been the taco salad…who knew “walnut taco meat” delicious and the cashew cream can be used for so many things! Thanks again!
I ate the Plants!
Loved making and eating your organic, plant-based recipes. Delicious.
Great Challenge
The colorful recipe booklet, support group, e-mails and online kickoff were super helpful. Really enjoyed trying some new recipes as well. Thanks for letting me be part of the challenge.
Loads of new salad options and great dressings
The number of salads and different dressings was a bit overwhelming at times. I loved eating a salad every day, but found we needed to scale back and finish the dressings from a day or two before since we seemed to have some left every day. The taco salad was my favorite, but not with the chopped walnuts with seasoning. I usually love walnuts on my salad, and missed the crunch of walnuts. I loved the base of the salad though and left off the crema and just put on some lemon juice. It was also great with taco meat (I don’t think the walnuts absorbed the seasoning the right way). It was also great with or without meat as a side to cheese quesadillas my son learned to make at school. And he loved the beans on the salad. (And I loved he tried something than just plain carrots and lettuce with dressing, which he will eat every day) The strawberry and basil dressing from day one was my favorite dressing. I will be making it more. It’s so easy! And I can not wait to have fresh basil from the garden and mint growing to try it with mint. I may also drizzle the dressing on bread or over top of my Tuscany or Bruschetta bread.
AWESOME CHALLENGE!!!
This challenge was so great!! I love all the new ideas for the salads. Getting some physical activity is a plus!! Love this 😍
Plant it!
This has been a great 10 days. I enjoyed trying new flavors and combinations. Sometimes the prep was intense day after day but the yummy results made it all work. I am not vegan or Eve am a vegetarian but I love plant based meals and this encouraged me to up my game.
Great way to introduce yourself to new recipes!
The 10-Day Salad Challenge allowed my family and I to try some wonderful recipes that we would have never otherwise tried. Recipes like the taco salad will definitely continue to be included in our meal plans.
Vegging, Learning, Loving
Vegging—eating more and more varied vegetables and feeling better Learning—trying new combinations with yummy dressings made it easy to keep going even with some major challenges in the process (travel to help my 93 y.o. mom) Loving—Loving the energy and natural glow that I have when I eat whole plant foods AND the support from this wonderful community.
Greens for Greatness
What a fun way to jump into the spring season with a salad challenge. I had a great time eating them all. However, I am particularly fond of any taco Tuesday… so the Healthy Taco Salad gets top honors from me.
Fun excuse to add more greens!
This was a great experience, loved the concept. It really helped encourage a new habit. I didn’t stick to all the recipes but appreciate inspiration. Even got my kids on board!
Go Green in Spring
This was an amazing 10-day challenge. I absolutely love salads and eat them everyday but my husband usually won’t eat them. I think I have made a convert in him with this challenge. He is now asking for salads!!!
Healthy Living
Wow learnes SO MUCH with Healthy Cooking and Salads! Will have these recipes forever and my family loves them ALL! THANK YOU!
