Can you recommend a healthy yet yummy salad dressing?

tusher2011

I am NOT a salad eater. The few times I do eat them, I like creamy italian dressing. Obviously, I want to stay away from creamy. So besides lite italian, is there a another dressing you guys eat that you would recommend. Salad is on the menu for tonight and I'm getting ready to run to the store in a few. I have had ceaser, peppercorn, raspberry vinagretts in the past and liked them.

Do the totally fat free ones even taste good????

inchik

i like olive oil and balsamic vinegar

Sc4ever

Kens makes some good dressings I like Raspberry Pecan and Oil and Vinegar

Dnsnyder

Walden Farms makes decent tasting calorie free dressings...yes ZERO calories. =-) They're acutally pretty good.

lingading

I like wishbone fat free chunk blue cheese. 35 calories for 2 tbls, I mix it with hot sauce to stretch it across a big salad for 0 added calories

newsarahd

Any of Ken's light options are great!!

lecia125

I just found Kraft Light Asian Toasted Sesame 50cals per serving! I tis very yummy, I love it on broccoli slaw!

ddwin

Marie's Yogurt Ranch Dressing!!! Yummy! and half the fat and calories of regular ranch.

hclayton46

I looove the Kraft Light Raspberry vinaigrette. I think it has about 45 cals per 2 tablespoons. I'm a huge ranch fan, but I love this stuff.

AnneMK5

Paul Newman's Light Honey Mustard
Bolthouse Farms - Raspberry Vinagrete Olive Oil dressing

SouthernAngel

Farmer Boy Greek Dressing. Heaven in a bottle. I put it on chicken, salad, and dip my veggies in it. SOOOO good! I buy it at Publix, but they only have it every few months. Not sure where else they sell it.

leahsevilla

for a salad dressing that isnt full of preservatives and other gross chemicals: http://www.marzetti.com/products/marzetti/product.php?bc=45&cid=

very delicious too

mielikkibz

home made blue cheese with low fat sour cream, worcestershire sauce, balsamic vinegar, pepper, garlic, can throw in a bit of blue cheese crumblies if you wish

BuceesNana

A squeeze of fresh lemon or lime?

MeganJo

Mix together some lime juice & cilantro. Toss it on a salad with bell peppers, onion, tomatoes & chicken/steak. It's awesome =]

kdet07

Ken's "light options" balsamic vinegar is YUMMY. hubby loves their parmesan peppercorn, and he's mr anti-salad. Any of the flavors in that line are yummmmm-o. )

cccathyyy

Kens Light Options are really good, my favorite are the parmesan peppercorn and the vidalia onion. Yogurt dressings in the refrigerated section are good too... My fave is Bolthouse Farms Ranch!

Sparksfly

I use Hannah's Tzakiki sauce (25 cals a tablespoon) sometimes with hot sauce mixed in. You definately get that creaminess that a lot of people look for in a salad dressing.

Also, I mix 2% Fage greek yogurt with some ranch (powder) mix for my salads. That comes out to around 15-16 calories a tablespoon.

I don't even miss regular salad dressing!

SimplyFreckled

You can use Salsa or even mix salsa and Avocado for a delicious guac..

nisharae

Bolthouse Farms makes yogurt based salad dressings .. they are yummy and 60 cal for 2 TBS (in refridge section next to fruit etc) also trader joes has a reduced fat ranch parmesean for 30 cal for 2TBS... yumm yumm...

Sarahr73

Balsamic vinegar and citrus juice (equal parts of both), my favorite is either orange or lemon. I just use half the fruit, I think it's about 1-2 tbls or so depending on how juicy of a fruit you get.

virgo1978

Target's Market Pantry Red Wine Vinegrette and Paul Newman's Own Lighten Up! Light Lime Vinegrette. Both are really low in calories and taste great! I like the creamy dressings too. These ones are my favorites for summer though.

jfox625

truthfully you have to get your fat from somewhere and I most of the time use regular salad dressing. I carefully measure it. I sometimes will do a light dressing. I like Ken's light sweet vidalia onion.

marindak

Hendrickson's Sweet Vinegar and Olive Oil. Yum. I put it on Cucumber salad, salad, chicken, pasta, etc.

sandrichelle

I never cared for any light or fat free dressing. I would rather do 1/2 the serving of a nice, real blue cheese and mix in a tbspoon fat free milk to make it cover. I had wishbones power fruit vinegarette today....and that was yummy!!

orenjisoda

Marzetti Light Balsamic Vinaigarette - 50 cals per serving

or my all-time fave

Newman's Own Lighten Up! Sesame Ginger - 35 cals per serving

MrsCon40

I have grown accustomed to just balsamic vinegar and red pepper flakes. It's especially good on spinach salad. If I want to pretend it's creamy, I mix balsamic with dijon mustard and thin it out with water a bit.

Thankfully I like the taste of my veggies, otherwise I don't think these dressings would really cut it

tusher2011

thanks guys! off to the store:)

ChantalGG

Kraft has a lite ranch that taste fine to me. i think it is 25 calories. Or you could try cucumber dressing it is creamy. I toss just greens with the cucumber and add dried dill all over. I love Italian dressing myself. i just buy the lite stuff and put it on everything.

anbegley

My husband and I ran across this one in one of our cookbooks. If you like a hint of lime, this was soooooo yummy.

Honey Lime Dressing

Plain Yogurt, 0.33 cup
Sour Cream, 5.28 tbsp
Honey, 2 tbsp
Fresh Lime Zest, 1.5 tsp
Lime juice - 0.04 cup
Salt, 0.25 tsp
Pepper, black, 0.25 tsp

I copied out of my recipes so sorry for some of the odd numbers. Can convert at cooks.com

Best of luck
Angela

oops..here are the numbers we got for 2 TBLS a serving. The hubby was also wanting low sodium


Per Serving: (cal) 45 (protein)1 (fat)1 (fiber) 0 (sodium) 114 (carbs) 8

kblue2007

Newmans Own Light Balsamic is 45 for 2tbsp
Newmans Own Sesame Ginger is only 35 for 2tbsp
Newmans Own Rasberry Walnut is 70 for 2tbsp

Good line of dressings. Good luck!