What's your favorite Fat Free Salad Dressing?

Life is too short for fat free salad dressing. And, incidentally, fat aids in absorption of vitamins and minerals found in vegetables,so some fat on your salad is beneficial. If not from the dressing, avocado would be a nice choice. If forced, I'd dress my salad with a twist of lemon and maybe some balsamic. But actually I'd never do that, so lemon, balsamic, and olive oil is the way I'd go. It would still be only about 40 calories, depending on the amount of olive oil.

Actually, to keep us morbidly obese (as a culture) the FDA encourages food manufacturers to list zero calories if a serving is less than 5 calories.

I would like to meet the person who became morbidly obese by consuming food products labeled as zero calories but that actually contain fewer than 5 per serving. It would take a lot of Walden Farms to equal 100 extra pounds. Me, I became obese the old fashioned way: ice cream and chex mix.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Fair point. I didn't communicate my case well. I just meant that in the midst of an "obesity epidemic" the FDA should probably be working FOR us, not AGAINST us by encouraging food manufacturers to hide calories.

Example: "Zero calorie" spray butter. Five sprays = 0 calories, except it doesn't. There are .8 calories in 1 spray, 4 calories in 5 sprays with .085 grams of fat in each spray. The bottle has ~ 830 calories and ~ 90 grams of fat. If a person attempting to lose weight uses 1/2 bottle/week, they are getting about 415 uncharted calories. But that's just spray butter, what about Splenda, cooking spray, etc.?

Every day, someone on MFP asks why they are gaining/not losing weight and every day at least one person asks if the OP is weighing/measuring their food to get an accurate calorie count. If the calories are hidden, an accurate calorie count, no matter how scrupulously weighed/measured is going to be off. Sometimes way off depending upon the "calorie free" food eaten.

Life is too short for fat free salad dressing. And, incidentally, fat aids in absorption of vitamins and minerals found in vegetables,so some fat on your salad is beneficial. If not from the dressing, avocado would be a nice choice. If forced, I'd dress my salad with a twist of lemon and maybe some balsamic. But actually I'd never do that, so lemon, balsamic, and olive oil is the way I'd go. It would still be only about 40 calories, depending on the amount of olive oil.

Actually, to keep us morbidly obese (as a culture) the FDA encourages food manufacturers to list zero calories if a serving is less than 5 calories.

I would like to meet the person who became morbidly obese by consuming food products labeled as zero calories but that actually contain fewer than 5 per serving. It would take a lot of Walden Farms to equal 100 extra pounds. Me, I became obese the old fashioned way: ice cream and chex mix.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Fair point. I didn't communicate my case well. I just meant that in the midst of an "obesity epidemic" the FDA should probably be working FOR us, not AGAINST us by encouraging food manufacturers to hide calories.

Example: "Zero calorie" spray butter. Five sprays = 0 calories, except it doesn't. There are .8 calories in 1 spray, 4 calories in 5 sprays with .085 grams of fat in each spray. The bottle has ~ 830 calories and ~ 90 grams of fat. If a person attempting to lose weight uses 1/2 bottle/week, they are getting about 415 uncharted calories. But that's just spray butter, what about Splenda, cooking spray, etc.?

Every day, someone on MFP asks why they are gaining/not losing weight and every day at least one person asks if the OP is weighing/measuring their food to get an accurate calorie count. If the calories are hidden, an accurate calorie count, no matter how scrupulously weighed/measured is going to be off. Sometimes way off depending upon the "calorie free" food eaten.

Fair enough. Labeling has so many loop-holes (foods labeled calorie or trans fat free that are NOT) that the best solution?

Avoid most things with labels

None of them. I think they all taste like crap. Just use less of the real deal.

There are full-fat dressings that aren't super high in calories--Kraft's olive oil Greek vinegerette is 60 calories for 2 Tb.

Italian.

Maple Grove Farms of Vermont - Sugar Free Rasberry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing. I have only been able to find this at my local Bi-Los and it is not only fat free but sugar free (uses splenda).

Maple Grove makes a good Fat Free Caesar too...a little bit spicy though. I think it's the pepper.

red wine vinaigrette

The ginger dressing available in the refriderated product section is awesome and very very low in calories and fat. Just like the dressing you get at Japanese steakhouses. Yummy.

I found out that dressings in the refrigerated section of the produce department are the best tasting and not have that awful after taste of horribly nasty bottled dressing you get in the aisle.

Lighthouse Poppyseed so far is my favorite! Check out the Lighthouse brands located in the produce section. they also dont have all kinds of chemical ingredients.

i had to throw out the two diet dressings i bought in the salad dressing aisle., they were awful.

Full flavor, and as little as needed to distribute the flavor throughout. That being said, I do like balsamic vinaigrette and thousand island.

Fat is good for you. Why not have a serving size of your favorite dressing? No need to go fat free.