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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.
Best d
I loved this challenge. I eat mostly plant based already. All the dressing, combinations and the whole community that took part in this challenge made this really fun. I have been wanting to get away from store purchased dressing and this made it a great adventure Also the support and comments from the challenge itself was wonderful Thank you for a really fun 10 days Jayme
Back to great habits!
I needed to get back to eating my daily salads. A few years ago I lost over 35 lbs by eating a salad every day for lunch. Thanks for challenging me to getting back to good habits!!!
Salads that will make you smile like in the commercials
I loved the challenge! Salads can be intimidating and when I try to make them on my own they are often on the bland side. Each recipe was simple and so different from the one before it. Will be coming back to these often!
Delish and exciting salads
I loved the salad challenge and enjoyed all the great recipes and particularly like that Jen shared options/substitutions for any ingredient we didn’t like or have. Definitely a great easy way to add more plants to our weekly menus!
Greens are Great!
I really enjoyed participating in this salad challenge. I wasn’t able to make all of the salads within the 10 days but I do intend to try them all. I participated in all 10 days of the fitness challenge. I really enjoyed trying new flavors. The walnut taco meat was fantastic! Arugula is something I never would’ve bought and it is delicious! Thank you for all the great suggestions and texture, flavor, color combos . I can’t wait to try the remaining recipes .
Fun family challenge
It’s been an awesome 10 days!!! I’ve been walking with my family and even enjoyed making the salads with my family!! My 12 yo son was especially inspired by this challenge!! We’ve made future goals of repeating salads from the challenge at least once a week. And we are continuing the at least a mile a day as a family!!! This was just the challenge I needed for my family and I to kick off warm weather and build our relationships! Thank you for this challenge!! I’d recommend it 10/10
Delicious healthiness
Liked the variety of salads and was surprised at how good they tasted.
ALL the salad fixins!
One of the greatest things about this 10-Day Challenge has been the diversity of the salad recipes! It allowed me to learn new salads to incorporate into our dinner/lunch rotation. Though I did adapt a few of the recipes (I don’t eat dairy), and did have one evening where I replaced that day’s salad with a salad at a restaurant (Ginger Chicken salad), the rest of the days were easy breezy! Thank you!
Awesome
Really enjoyed trying new recipes for my vitamix! Thanks for putting this together and opening it up to the public!
Run for the Salad
Love, love love!! this challenge. First, I love most any salad, but have been hesitant to try some ingredients in the past. I pushed myself, and found I could have a taco salad without meat. The Vegan Taco Salad was my favorite overall, but the Potato Salad came in a very close second. By reading other comments from fellow Rawkers, I have added new variations to many of the salads for future use. Oh, the commitment to move 1 mile a day was big for me. I even joined a swim class and feel the need to move all day long. I do better at all things in life when being challenged. This 10-Day Salad Challenge, along with the Run the Edge Challenge gave me the fire I needed to get active and stay active. Although a grocery bill may be higher for a challenge such as this if you don’t have many ingredients on hand, I saved quite a bit of money not eating out for lunch. Plus, my lunch was healthier and tastier.
great challenge
The challenge helped me to get healthier and feel better.
Rockin’ with smoothies!!
Started out feeling a bit sluggish and less than motivated. Gave it a try and each day got better and better! Highly recommend! Finished up rockin’ it and feeling great!
Tried new things & loved it
It was great to try new things with recipes that were easy to follow – I’ll definitely be making some of these recipes again!
A clean start
The program was a good way to learn to eat different veggies. I would not thought of pairing fruit with arugula. It was fun to make your own dressings and I will continue to make my own. Cashews are now a great way to make cream based recipes.
Salad Champion
This challenge was the best I have ever tried. The salads were so different and the dressings were tasty and not high in calories. I love it and I will make these salads again for sure.
