Are you kidding me?!?!

Down right deceiving!

Before I started counting calories I thought eating salad was the way to go. I would eat salad for weeks with no results. Once I started counting calories and comparing my old habits, I was shocked needless to say. My idea of good salad involved 8oz of fried chicken strips, two ounces of cheese, and 4 packets of dressing. The grand total was like 1300 calories, pretty much as much as a triple whopper from burger king.

So like you said, always check servings/calories before you send it down the hatch.

Oil is fatty, and fat has calories.

Very insightful, I can't believe such a nugget of wisdom was free!

My point was that apple cider vinegar has no calories, so the name apple cider vinaigrette was a quite misleading as it was not called "More Soy Bean Oil in a 2oz serving than order of fries dressing"

Vinaigrette is typically a mix of oil and vinegar. The classic ratio, I believe, is 2 parts oil to one part vinegar, but you can obviously lighten it up by reducing the proportion of oil.

Salad dressing is made from the devils loins.

i always thought it was made in a test kitchen in some deep dark dungeon...but that location is much more awesome.

Low fat cottage cheese has become my favorite dressing!!

Chick-fil-A dressing cheat code:
High calorie: Zesty, Spicy, Buttermilk, Honey, Avocado
Medium calorie: Reduced fat, Fat free
Low calorie: Light

Chick-fil-A. has a great new market salad that is pretty awesome but the apple cider vinaigrette dressing that is recommended for it has more grams of fat than a small waffle fry (19 vs 16!) and almost as many calories (230!!).

I heard vinaigrette and assumed that it wasn't going to be too horrible, it wasn't until I was logging it that I realized how bad it was. I nearly cried, that one stupid packet of dressing cancelled out my work out.

Moral of the story, log first then eat!

Keep in mind that it's not necessarily bad. A lot of people (not saying you are) try to cut out way too much fat from their diet because they think fat makes you fat (I blame the '80s). A good, healthy, balanced diet should consist of about 20-30% fat. Fats are essential to absorbing the nutrients from other foods you eat...also brain function, nervous system function, and heart health.

Yep this.

Also, its well-documented that a lack of unsaturated fats, like the fat in olive oil, can cause your body to produce grehlin, the hormone that makes you feel hungry. If you get to a point where you are hungry no matter what you eat, you need to up your fat intake in unsaturated fats.

This happened to me. Started eating more PB and cooking with olive oil... no more constant hungries!

Chick-fil-A. has a great new market salad that is pretty awesome but the apple cider vinaigrette dressing that is recommended for it has more grams of fat than a small waffle fry (19 vs 16!) and almost as many calories (230!!).

I heard vinaigrette and assumed that it wasn't going to be too horrible, it wasn't until I was logging it that I realized how bad it was. I nearly cried, that one stupid packet of dressing cancelled out my work out.

Moral of the story, log first then eat!

I would have ate a sandwich instead.

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Just for fun, here are the ingredients:

Soybean oil, apple cider vinegar, sugar, water, honey, distilled vinegar, pineapple juice concentrate, lemon juice concentrate, salt, spice, lime juice (water, lime juice concentrate, lime oil), xanthan gum, potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate added as preservatives, natural flavor, garlic*, onion*, propylene glycol alginate, calcium disodium EDTA added to protect flavor. *dehydrated.