salad dressing?

minusonali
minusonali Posts: 65
in Food and Nutrition
I usually eat my salad with balsamic vinegar, but want to try different dressings. So what do you guys prefer your salad with?
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  • BetsCblog
    BetsCblog Posts: 1 Member
    Hi there,

    I usually make home-made, but if I buy store-bought I like the Bolthouse Farms yogurt salad dressings. They have a lot of different flavors to choose from, low in calories, and don't have trans-fats, preservatives, artificial colors, flavors, added sugars and gluten free!

    I sound like a commercial (LoL) really they are just good for you and taste good too!: :wink:

    Hope that helps!

    Betsy
  • Hell_Flower
    Hell_Flower Posts: 348 Member
    Just lemon juice and a bit of salt and pepper. I'm a big believer in that a good salad needs no dressing :). Stick some red onion in there and jobs a good un! (apart from onion breath. Yea, that).
  • earth_echo
    earth_echo Posts: 133 Member
    Salad dressing packets with plain Greek yogurt is quite good.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    Full fat ranch dressing.

    Lite raspberry vinaigrette (usually on a salad with whatever greens I have, walnuts, feta, and strawberries).
  • drattedfatbody52
    drattedfatbody52 Posts: 33
    I've been using salad dressing from Walden Farms. I found it at my local health food grocery. It isn't as good as regular dressing but it claims zero calories and even if that isn't true, it's tolerable and comes in a multitude of flavors that is WAY LESS calories than my regular dressing.
  • Amitysk
    Amitysk Posts: 705 Member
    I prefer homemade vinaigrettes. Recently though I was craving ranch and since I loathe it from a bottle I made it from a hidden valley package. It was delicious! Totally reminded me of what ranch from my childhood tasted like!.

    Also, Kens lite caeser dressing is pretty good.
  • iwannabinnarnia
    iwannabinnarnia Posts: 179 Member
    Fat free ranch, fat free italian, fat free catalina, fat free anything pretty much....
  • harmonmt
    harmonmt Posts: 10 Member
    I use the Walden Foods zero calorie dressings. My favorite is the Super Fruit Balsamic Vinaigrette. The Pure Formulas website sells them with free shipping if you can't find them locally.
  • adiesilver
    adiesilver Posts: 13 Member
    My favorite salad dressing is balsamic vinegar, olive oil, minced/pressed garlic, salt, and pepper whisked together. Sometimes I just do balsamic and olive oil, but I think it's something about the garlic that adds a little something extra! It's also really good with a little dijon thrown in, too.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Use some toasted sesame oil, black sesame seeds, ginger, Braggs Aminos or soy sauce and rice vinegar, S&P, for an Asian flavour. Take out the sesame seeds, add a bit of peanut butter and hot sauce and you got Thai/Indonesian.
  • cajuntank
    cajuntank Posts: 924 Member
    I'll second the Bolt Farms yogurt based dressings...Love those things but can only get a few flavors at my local grocery stores and have not found an outlet online where I can order the other flavors from.
  • Lizzy622
    Lizzy622 Posts: 3,705 Member
    garlic infused olive oil. A little dizzle goes a long way.
  • MayMaydoesntrun
    MayMaydoesntrun Posts: 805 Member
    Blue cheese crumbles.
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    my go to lately has been the ALDI Lite-n-fit ranch. If not that, I use Wish Bone Country Italian (i think that's what it's called).
  • ladybarometer
    ladybarometer Posts: 205 Member
    Opa Greek yogurt dressing for me if I'm eating a salad at home - My fav is the Feta Dill!
    If I'm out, it's usually Ranch or honey mustard, although my adiction right now is Panera's Fuji Apple chicken salad and the dressing that's on it. It's a Fuji Apple Vinegarette - I tried making my own at home, and it was pretty terrible :/
  • SnuggleSmacks
    SnuggleSmacks Posts: 3,731 Member
    I love dressings and have a small collection:
    Ken's Steak House sweet Vidalia onion
    Ken's Steak House sundried tomato vinagrette
    Drew's Organics smoked tomato
    Organicville herbes de provence
    Roasted red pepper from my local farmer's market.


    None of these have more than 80 cals/serving and I can easily fit that in my budget. I eat A LOT of salad.
  • HerbertNenenger
    HerbertNenenger Posts: 453 Member
    my go-tos are Opa Greek Yogurt dressing in feta and dill
    Annie's Green Goddess
    and Trader Joe's low fat Cilantro
  • mkraizel
    mkraizel Posts: 22 Member
    Make the ranch dip with greek yogurt! That's what I do for dip and I thin it out with milk to make a dressing. Even less calories!
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    Right now I'm using a light Caesar because I wanted to try something different. I usually eat salad with oil and vinegar, full fat mayo thinned with some lemon juice, or hummus thinned with water.
  • Pirate_chick
    Pirate_chick Posts: 1,216 Member
    Lemon juice and avocado. with a few crumbles of blue cheese. it. is. so. good.
  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
    balsamic vinegar with basil paste, garlic powder and lime juice... I take it with me in a small bottle everywhere !
  • willrun4bagels
    willrun4bagels Posts: 838 Member
    I like Trader Joe's fat free balsamic vinaigrette. 30 grams / 2 TBSP for 25 calories.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Another fan of Walden Farms calorie free dressings. The Bleu cheese also makes a great (if somewhat runny) veggie dip too. When I have some extra calories to spend, I go with Newman's Own Lite cranberry walnut.
  • AlyRoseNYC
    AlyRoseNYC Posts: 1,075 Member
    Marie's has a new yogurt-based Caesar dressing that is delicious!
  • tracydr
    tracydr Posts: 528 Member
    I usually make a vinegrette at home. I never eat bottled dressing but every once in awhile I make the Hidden Vally Ranch from a box. I need to learn to make a lower fat homemade ranch and maybe a lower fat blue cheese,too. Recently I made two new dressings. I used a Skinny Taste recipe for caesar dressing that was fantastic! Best Caesar I've ever made! Don't skip the anchovies, you won't taste them. You can use anchovy paste, which is easier.
    I also make salsa dressing -one is a vinagrette with salsa, red wine vinegar, lime juice and olive oil. Another is to just take the salsa and mound on top of my salad and add a scoop of fat free Greek yogurt. This is great with a homemade taco salad. ( I just do taco meat, lettuce, tomatoes, cilantro, onions and a little cheese.
  • CurveAppeal86
    CurveAppeal86 Posts: 272 Member
    I use the Renees yogurt dressing. Cucumber Dill is by far my favourite!
  • lizafava2
    lizafava2 Posts: 185
    I always make my own vinigarettes or ranch. Full fat dressings go a long way, IME. For those of you who like hidden valley mix, you might try a homemade mix. Cheaper and less garbage. I have a mix of dried herbs and spices in a jar on my oil/vinigar shelf. When I want some ranch I mix a little bit of that with some mayo and buttermilk and voila! If you don't always have buttermilk in your fridge like I do, you can buy buttermilk powder for the mix.
  • nilbogger
    nilbogger Posts: 870 Member
    I like the Newman's Own dressings like Lite Honey Mustard and Lite Sesame Ginger. Brianna's dressing is really good, too.
  • ohiotubagal
    ohiotubagal Posts: 190 Member
    Alternatives to regular dressing:

    --Taboule

    --Salsa and light sour cream (thinned with some skim milk) for a Mexican salad

    --LIght Asian sesame dressing thinned with rice vinegar
  • B32Roden
    B32Roden Posts: 11
    Most store bought / packaged dressings will contain preservatives, hidden sugars and sodium but they are great for flavor. Often the low-fat varieties contain chemicals.

    I believe in making my own dressings, similar to how you would make a marinade.

    You can use different oils, vinegars, herbs, spices and condiments to make some really yummy combinations and switch it up every time so you never get bored. If you make a bigger batch, they'll keep in the fridge for a while too.

    Another idea is to use a ripe avocado that you can mush up using a fork and then mix your salad in it to coat.

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