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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.
Rawkin Salads 🥗
I loved this challenge and the recipes were yummy! Not every recipe was my fav but I enjoyed trying new things and the support group was fun!
Exercise and eat healthy
I rode my bicycle a lot in this great Florida weather. I loved the salad recipes. My favorite was the one with avocado and that real strawberry dressing.
Yummy Salads
I love seeing all the different salads. it was great experimenting with different foods I would’ve never thought to put in the salads. I will continue using the recipes for the salads. A++ challenge!!!
Fun and Fabulous!!
I love Vitamix green smoothies salads and Challenges…so this 10-Day Challenge has been incredible! I have been participating in the background and have appreciated the daily encouragement and the delicious recipes! Thank you for all the thought and effort that has gone into providing this Challenge. I’m a health coach and I know how much energy it takes to create and run a successful Challenge. Also Vitamix is my favorite and I will forever sing its praises! Thank you for a fun and fabulous 10 days!
I’m enjoying the daily emails with recipes.
Everyday I’ve tried a new smoothie recipe for fun. It’s been great!
10 day yum yum challenge
I loved most of the salads. There were a few that wasn’t my favorite. That being said I love the challenge and new salad recipes. It was fun to see other peoples twist on things. These salads were so easy and quick to do it was also very easy on my belly but still hitting all the flavor note that you would want.
In lightening
Found some great recipes to had to my daily routine to introduced healthily and interesting choice to my boring routine. I am amazed had how ingredients that I would never think or consider putting together work for some magical tastes Thanks to all involved for your time and knowledge Much appreciated Terry King
Easy Nutritious Salad Variety
Hi there!! Even though I arrived to the challenge late, I’ve had a great time seeing what other people have thought of the recipes. When I think of salad, I tend to think just greens but love how the salads were not all focused on greens, like the Crunchy Carrot or Vegan Potato Salad. I also love how many of the salad dressings are made with staple pantry items. Thanks so much for sharing such yumminess that is easy to prepare and enjoy! I can’t wait to make more 🙂 I’ll also get my son involved in helping in the kitchen. He hates when I make him help for more than 20 minutes haha, so these recipes will be perfect!
Spring has sprung in a salad bowl
I enjoyed the salad recipes, using most of the recipe ingredients with ones l had on hand. I had some glitches with not being able to get back in and leave reviews, nor get back into the fitness challenge section ,but overall I enjoyed the challenge and the kick off to spring and l look forward to the start of local produce coming into abundance.
Great challenge for anyone
I found the challenge to give me great ideas and give me a daily reminder to stay healthy and fit. It is a well-rounded program that someone can do over and over again, it will just keep helping. Thank you for this challenge, it is a great resource!
Not a fan of preparing salads
I lose interest in collecting the right ingredients and chopping them up.
💚 Salads
I love grabbing a handful of greens and adding nuts, pickled peppers or whatever I can find and using a lemon vinaigrette for guaranteed delicious salad.
SALADS RAWK !!!!!!
I loved the salad challenge because it was so much more than a salad , it was a complete meal and very unexpected surprise how much I enjoy them. I did have a couple of favs like the taco salad and the kale salad on day 9 . I really makes you open your eyes to a different way of thinking about a salad thanks for the challenge looking forward to others in the months to come!
Greens are Great
I loved this 10-Day Salad Challenge. It was exciting to try some different salad and dressing ideas. I especially loved the strawberry dressing – so fresh tasting with the basil. I’m a big kale lover so the Kale Caesar Salad is a new favorite. I loved the walnut ‘meat’ in the taco salad, and the potato salad is a new go to. Thanks for the challenge. It has kick-started my spring. Anne
Fun salad science experiments
I loved this challenge! I enjoyed most of the salads but really what I loved is I was able to be introduced to new foods (hello cashew cream and walnut taco “meat”!) in a way that felt super easy and not intimidating at all. I tried to make most of the recipes as written to really see if I would like them but having the substitutions and reading what others did via the fb group encouraged me to experiment and do what felt fun and sounded tasty. I tackled things that I’ve always found intimidating including making my own dressings and now I don’t think I can ever go back to store bought. I am happy I’m ending this challenge not just with new recipes but some fun ideas for combining new flavor profiles and more confidence to not overthink food and simple can still be really satisfying. I also love that I’ve found great ways to reduce the meat consumption of my family and can provide tasty, filling options that they love.
