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Dressings and cheeses can hold ALOT of calories. What are you putting on/in them??

What all are you putting on your salads? All the toppings and certain salad dressings can carry a lot of calories.

Depend on 1. did you make the salad at home. 2. Did you get it prepared at restuarant 3. Did it have a nutrition label.

Salad can contain a lot of meat and cheese and not to mention that calories in the salad dressing. There are several great and tasty low-calorie salad recipes on MFP and most restaurants have their nutrion information online and on the food database on MFP.

hope that helps a litte. What else are you eating?

Salads are very sneaky! The dressings are usually killers - as are cheese, nuts, added meat, etc. If you want to add me as a friend, my food diary is open, and you can see what I make for a salad when I go to a salad bar (such as Sweet Tomatoes). I add high fiber things like garbonzo beans, red kidney beans, black beans, etc., plus additional vegetables like sliced cucumbers, grated carrots, chopped celery, etc. For the dressing, I do not pour it on or let the cook or waiter put it on. Instead, I get it on the side, and then just dip my fork in the dressing before every bite so I get a taste of it with very few Calories. I can eat a heaping plate full of salad and only use 1 Tablespoon or less of salad dressing this way, and I still get some with every bite. :-) This was a tip I got from a dietician, by the way. Good luck!


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instead of pouring dressing on your salad take 2 tbs and put them in a dish and dip your fork into the dish before you take a bit of salad that way you get the dressing flavoring without using tons of dressing.