what can you use besides salad dressing on salads?

Tzatziki (Greek), definitely!!! It's not just for Gyros and Souvlaki (which I miss, being on a diet). Use it on garden salad or Greek salad, or toast some multigrain pitas with a little Greek seasoning and dip in to this sauce. It's great. I found the owner of a local pizza place is from Crete, and he always makes this for me when I bring the kids in for pizza (he knows I'm on a diet).

Ingredients
2 (8 ounce) containers plain yogurt 2 cucumbers - peeled, seeded and diced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 lemon, juiced
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill
3 cloves garlic, peeled

Directions
(revised--it was missing a step that would solve the runniness problem. Drain the yogurt in a colander for a few hours. This is the way they do it the Greek restaurants. You should also salt and drain the cucumbers for an hour.)

In a food processor or blender, combine yogurt, cucumber, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, dill and garlic. Process until well-combined. Transfer to a separate dish, cover and refrigerate for at least one hour for best flavor.

I have discovered Italian Rose fresh salsas, one is mango based and the other is tomato based. They can be purchased at Sam's. I make my usual salad with lettuce, tomatoes, and whatever other fresh veggies I have on hand. I add 1/4 cup of dried cranberries, a sprinkle of sea salt, and a sprinkle of Splenda. Then I toss the salad in 1/2 cup of whichever salsa I am in the mood for that day. The tomato salsa (1/2 cup) has 40 calories, 0 fats, and 8 grams of carbs. The mango salsa (1/2 cup) has 140 calories, 0 fats, and 40 grams of carbs. You could use less salsa to cut the calories even more, but this is the amount that I like.

My 18 year old son decided one day he didnt want mayo or salad cream and rummaged through the different dressings in my fridge. He came across the mint sauce that we would have on roast lamb. That seemed rather strange but was absolutely delicious. Only vinegar and mint so virtually no calories at all.

You can make a vinaigrette out of almost anything. If you like the flavor, can fit it in a bottle and add some vinegar and oil to it, you can make a dressing.

White wine vinegar! Soy sauce on cabbage salad with chicken or tuna is one of those things I could eat every day.

I've gone through several iterations on my journey.
at first I used regular dressing but I kept it on the side. I would only dip the tines of my fork in the dressing then take a bite of salad.
I found that I got the salad dressing flavor that I wanted, but used far less dressing.

Then I did the same with Light dressings.

In the spirit of continuous improvement I found Walden farms which offers a complete line of products free of Fat, sugars, carbs, gluten, and most improtantly calories. They have some great dressings to choose from http://www.waldenfarms.com/

I put the vinegar from hot pepper rings on my salad with the hot peppers in the salad too of course.

or just plan water.

I use yogurt.

Make bruchetta. Its tasty and you can add croutons for the bread, if you want.

Someone said Tzatziki before I did.. but I second that one! Tzatziki is really flavorful (and fresh tasting!) and low calorie.

I use Kraft Zesty Italian Fat Free Dressing, it has 15 calories for 2 tablespoons!

this is all very philosophical because the moment you put anything on top of your salad, it becomes salad dressing.

Balsamic vinegar! Love love love it!!!!!

i like to take equal parts of dijon mustard and rice vinegar and mix it up and put it over the salad