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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.
Great Challenge!
I love the new recipes ❤️ I am losing weight and I am motivated to continue 🏃🏼♀️☺️
Can’t beet this challenge!
This challenge is particularly fun as it makes you try combinations of food that you would not necessarily go for on your own. It makes it a nice discovery journey. Recipes are easy to follow delicious and the FB group is very dynamic. Can’t wait for the next challenge!
Greens greens the magical uh fruit?!
I’m used to doing smoothie challenges and juice challenges so the salad challenge was a great way to add salads to the mix! I really enjoyed the variety (pasta fruit etc) and plan to hold onto the recipes for future use! Thank you for the motivation!!!
Amp up! Taking your salad to a whole new delicious and healthy level
This was the 1st time I ever joined a challenge. As a cancer survivor I would consider myself very conscientious about what I eat and fuel my body with. Although I often find myself eating the same things because it’s a comfort zone for me. This salad challenge peaked my interest because it gave me the necessary push to “branch out” and explore new and healthy recipes. The shopping list was instrumental in my success of being able to complete the challenge. In addition the recipes were easy to follow provided great flavor and variety and very innovative. The garlic lemon aioli dressing for the kale caesar salad is just one example. This was one of my favorite salads of the challenge. I would highly recommend this salad challenge to anyone. It’s easy fun and who isn’t looking for new ideas and ways to enjoy eating salads. Many thanks to the SGS team for your empowerment and dedication to creating such delicious healthy plant-based recipes.
Yum to the Max!
When you say salad most of us think if a basic salad with green lettuce some veggies and dressing. This challenge opened my eye to so many new salad recipes. Bonus – they were all VERY easy to make and even better delicious to eat. Not having to look up and hunt for new salad ideas was great and the shopping list provided made it even easier. Highly recommend and would join again!
Great recipes and incentives to focus on healthy eating and nutrition with Vitamix. Staying healthy like my Mom 🙂
Built New Habits!
Committing to this challenge helped me build the habit of shopping and prepping for the week, which was easy with the shopping list and prepping information provided. I enjoyed the variety of recipes and looked forward to trying something new each day! They were TASTY! I did struggle with the volume of leftovers to use up since the recipes serve two rather than one. But, I’ll admit that I did enjoy the second helping of the potato salad!!
Ate more greens than I thought humanly possible- in a good way!
I have never gone through so many bins and bags of greens in one week especially when prepping for more than one person but I was thrilled to have so much diversity and color throughout my meals this week. I especially appreciate that there were smoothies as well as savory meals and sides- so many options AND with a focus on vegan and vegetarian recipes I could eat (or modify) everything! Thank you so much for inspiring us to try new things and most importantly appreciate the flexibility of greens- an underestimated ingredient in both its malleability and variety. An overall delicious week!
Sensational Salad Extravaganza
I do love a good salad but I get stuck in my ‘go-to’ ruts. The information provide with this challenge opened a whole new world of salad possibilities for my spouse and I at a time when we were looking to add more veggies to our diet. I love love love the walnut meat substitute! Didn’t even know it existed. The recipes are easy to follow and modify if that is desired. I’m looking forward to coming up with some recipes of my own from this challenge. Thank you!!!
fresh and colorful
experienced foods I would not normal buy or pair together. Broadened by salad making from the basic iceberg lettuce to soooo much more
Salads for Life
I enjoyed having a different salad recipe every day, and I appreciated that there were a variety of types of salads, not just lettuce. The downside to these recipes for me was that they relied on oil. Oil is not a heath food, and it was hard to make some of the recipes without it. Some of the recipes were easily converted and will be on my regular rotation (Delicious strawberry-basil dressing, I am thinking of you). It was nice to know that I wasn’t alone making the salads, and I enjoyed reading some of the comments below the recipes.
10 Days of Salads
I enjoyed the 10-day salad challenge! It pushed me out of my comfort zone – I explored areas of my grocery store I never noticed before. My favorite recipe from the challenge was the Kale Caesar Salad!
Salad Challenge x 10 days
I enjoyed this challenge; it gave me some new recipes to use in my food rotations. They are quick and easy to make and easy to adjust to my personal taste. Thanks!
Loving these greens!
I got to try a lot of new recipes and kicked up my use of greens in a good way! I felt good about what I was putting in my body. This may have been a 10 day challenge, but I’ll certainly be including these recipes and more on a more frequent basis
Beautiful salads and wonderful support.
I loved how well this challenge was set up. The support from the Support group was great and I love seeing how other people made and served their salads. The recipes were easy to make and so much better than the salads that I normally just toss together right before dinner. I gained some great tools for planning ahead to ensure that my daily salads are exiting and won’t bore me into leaving them off the menu. I’ll keep these salad recipes in my favorite binder so I can keep them on rotation. My favorite salad was the sweet and crunchy salad. I had it for lunch then I made another to bring to a friend’s bbq on Sunday. It was a hit! Now I can up my salad game at home and at parties! Thanks to the creators of this challenge for setting up something so fun and helpful.
