Dole Fresh Vegetables/Bud Antle offers holiday Instacart salad offer

MONTEREY, Calif. (Dec. 11, 2025) – Dole Fresh Vegetables/Bud Antle BB #:114768 is giving holiday revelers compelling new reasons to add a salad kit to their holiday dinner and entertaining plans.

Reflecting the trend of more Americans eating salad for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year’s, the produce leader is teaming with Instacart to offer special savings on its best-selling DOLE Chopped Caesar and Chopped Bacon Caesar Kits.

Starting Dec. 15, 2025, salad-loving Instacart shoppers can save $1 for every $8 they spend on the DOLE Chopped Caesar. DOLE Chopped Bacon Caesar and almost 70 other DOLE salad offerings, including 31 separate salad kits.

One of the most popular DOLE-branded salad offerings, the Chopped Caesar kit salad combines shredded Parmesan cheese, and crumbled garlic croutons with crisp romaine lettuce and Dole’s Caesar Dressing. The Chopped Bacon Caesar kit offers a twist and includes garlic pepper seasoning, bacon crumbles, and crumbled garlic croutons.

According to David Austin, vice president of marketing and innovation at Dole Fresh Vegetables/Bud Antle, the offer is consistent with trends showing that more Americans are embracing salad for the holidays. “Surveys suggest that close to one-third of families in the U.S. now serve a green salad for December holidays and almost one-in-ten serve a Ceasar salad – with West Coast residents the most likely to add fresh greens to their holiday menus.” (Source).

“Whether balancing-out the ham or turkey at Christmas, the latkes and Sufganiyot at Hanukkah or the hearty stews of Kwanzaa, salads offer a refreshing, lighter side dish option for any holiday meal,” said Austin.

Dole Fresh Vegetables introduced its first packaged salad in 1993. The company’s salad business, now part of Bud Antle, LLC, was instrumental in the launch and growth of new salad varieties, such as its DOLE Chopped Salad Kits line, and the overall salad segment.

“With December calendars packed with entertaining, travel and last-minute meal planning, Dole’s salad kits deliver a ready-to-serve option that requires virtually no prep,” said Austin. “Our latest promotion helps consumers keep fresh greens on the table even during the season’s busiest weeks.”

Dole Instacart Offer

Under Dole Fresh Vegetables/Bud Antle’s Instacart promotion, for every $8 that Instacart shoppers spend on participating DOLE Salads, they will save $1.

The offer is available starting Dec. 15, 2025 on any DOLE Salad Blend or Kit on the DOLE Salads Instacart page, while supplies last.

For full promotion details, go to https://www.instacart.com/store/brands/dolefresh-vegetables/salads.

About Dole Fresh Vegetables/Bud Antle 

Dole Fresh Vegetables/Bud Antle is one of the largest fresh and cut vegetable producers and distributors in North America. The Monterey, Calif.-based company markets a wide range of value-added salads and farm-packed vegetables throughout the U.S. and Canada under the DOLE Brand, through three geographically diverse, state-of-the-art U.S. salad processing plants able to supply its broad retail and foodservice customer base.

In the U.S., DOLE brand was ranked as the most-trusted brand in Salad Kits in the 2025 BrandSpark Most-Trusted Brand Awards Presented by Newsweek. The rankings were determined by 29,000 American shoppers who shared their insights on which brands they trust most and why.