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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.
Fun Salad challenge for all!
I give this 10 day challenge 6 ! Even though I don’t always eat plant based this has been very fun. My favorite salad is the Taco salad. I’ve explored new ingredients that haven’t been in my kitchen before and I even lost a few pounds!
Salads 4 Life
I already eat salads daily, so I entered this challenge with complete confidence that I could rawk it. I’d say there were two big things I loved about taking the challenge on: 1. It gave me some AMAZING new recipes, salads that I may not have constructed on my own. The lemon arugula was my hands-down favorite, but I’ll also be making the bright berry salad and the strawberry arugula salad on repeat now. 2. The community was awesome. As with all of Jen’s challenges, I’m inspired by the open-mindedness, the support, and the encouragement that I see in the support group. I’m so excited to continue adding the recipes from the challenge (and others!) to my regular repertoire … and to continue to eat more plants!
Dressings for Success! (or how I learned to like salads)
I have always eaten salads, but as more of a health strategy than for pleasure. But Jen’s recipes made every salad a delicious surprise! The creative dressings (I particularly liked the cashew cream) and the clever meat substitutes (like walnut “meat”) really made it easy to switch to a plant-based diet and not get bored or not feel full after eating. And I lost weight and my cholesterol went down in the process, so it’s a win all around! 😉 Thank you!!
New recipes for my Husband to cringe at 🙂
I have been eating the same old salads and healthy meals for as long as I can remember. This challenge gave me some new recipes to broaden my horizons on some new healthy meals to try. My husband is NOT a healthy eater especially when it comes to vegetables so he got excited thinking I was trying something fun he could eat but was sadly mistaken but I was very much so the opposite! Mixing it up felt like I was eating a whole new diet!
Great way to start making a change
I am not vegan nor did I completely realize this was a vegan challenge before I started, I learned some amazing tips to live a healthier lifestyle while doing the challenge. I did make some adjustments for time or supplies and I did add some meat for protein at times. I found it to be a great motivator for me to make healthier choices and really kick-start my lifestyle changes.
Expanding salad horizons
I loved having a grocery list and a meal plan. I wasn’t able to keep up on everything but happy to try out some new recipes and incorporate more veggies in my diet! Thank you for putting this all together.
Nice challenge
I ate more salads and walked consistently.
Who knew 10 Days of Salads would be so good
I loved the 10 Day Challenge! The recipes were easy to follow & delicious. Healthy Taco Salad- didn’t miss my regular taco meat. Walnut Meat so good. Learned that making plant based meals isn’t difficult. Plus they taste great.
The Spark I Needed!
I didn’t complete the challenge perfectly, but I ate more fresh foods and moved more than normal. I needed a change of pace to kick me into some healthier rhythms, and this did it! For me, the most important thing was getting comfortable with preparing fresh foods in small servings. When I make healthy foods, I usually spend hours making lots of servings I can eat throughout the week (of the same thing). It was so refreshing to come home after a busy day and spend 15 minutes preparing something healthy and fresh! I’m keeping some of these recipes for future use, and I picked up one of Jen’s recipe books. Most importantly, I’m carrying with me the reminder that healthy meals can be quick and fuss-free; you just have to pick them right. Thank you for this challenge!
Jumping into Spring
I enjoy all of the Rawkstar challenges. However, the Spring Salad Challenge brings Spring & fun to my mind & well-being. Best challenge!
Salad challenge
It was tough to eat salad for 10 days straight but I was able to incorporate a salad during those 10 days. This included fruit salad, vegetable salad, pasta salad, etc. Once I started to think of different salad ideas, they became easier to implement. I’ll continue to try to eat more salads post-challenge.
Energy!
Not easy getting started but lots of good tools here to help. Have more energy and sleeping better so far so planning to keep going. Thanks for the motivation!
Mmm salad
Really like promos that are actually good for me and the planet. Yay!
Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone
On my healthier journey, I was starting to back slide a bit. After a strong New Year’s Resolution, I was beginning to slow down to a boring crawl. I needed a new challenge to provide some momentum. This 10 Day Salad Challenge was the kick in the behind that I needed. I shopped, created new amazing salads everyday, and walked when the crazy Dallas spring couldn’t decide to be cold or rainy or hot! Now facing the end of the 10 days, I am joyfully celebrating a renewed spirit of determination. Success can only be measured by perseverance along with determination, and I am now armed with new tools to continue that journey that I began in January. I have no fear of recreating Jen’s fabulous recipes from the Simple Green Smoothies cookbook or even reinventing them with all the suggestions from my fellow challenge participants. I have a Fitness Tracker from Run the Edge to keep me trekking, and a big round of applause to Organic Girl for supplying the healthy salad mixes and alerting me to the 10 Day Salad Challenge. I’ll be making my favorite, the Taco Salad, tomorrow as I trek thru the next month with an “I Got This” attitude. Thank You!
I Love Fennel – Who knew?
One of those things I’m just terrible at is creativity in my meal planning. This challenge was the kick in the pants I needed to try new things and – bonus!- eat more plants. Literally on Day 1 I found my new favorite salad dressing, the Strawberry Basil. Day 4 is my new favorite salad (Lemon Arugula, picture attached) with Day 10 (Strawberry Arugula) as the runner up. Never tried fennel before in my life but it will be a regular addition to my salads now. (I also get to break out my mandolin slicer -yay!) One downside to this challenge: I hate to waste food, so doing this challenge for 10 consecutive days was tricky. I did have some difficulty trying to use up the ingredients that didn’t make it into the salads. My rabbit took care of some of the scraps and we got creative with the rest. Thanks for the motivation and tools give this a try!
