Your favorite salad dressing?
alteredsteve175
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I eat lots of salad. I generally like it, but I need some new ideas for dressings. I like blue cheese, but I need some other options. I am willing to make my own at home if you have a favorite recipe. Thank you.
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My favorite so far is Olive Garden's light dressing, which you can get in the grocery store.3
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Cottage cheese mixed with a packet of dry dressing mix.2
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Also this PB dressing:
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Ken's Caesar, but it has lots of calories. Paul Newman Raspberry Walnut is also really good.0
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Love the bolthouse dressings so many flavors4
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I prefer my own vinaigrette made with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic and fresh herbs from my garden. I vary it by adding different herbs, mustard or buttermilk.0
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The Bolthouse organic blue cheese is incredible, and only 50 calories per 2 tbsp serving.
I have literally every flavor of Bolthouse dressing in my fridge.2 -
I usually make my own with olive oil, lemon juice, honey, mustard and garlic.
My latest discovery is pomegranate molasses instead of lemon juice or vinegar. Gives very nice and complex flavour3 -
Coconut amino sauce. Damn that stuff is versatile1
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Bolthouse cilantro avocado is good, but most of the time I just use balsamic vinegar.0
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Kraft Thousand Island, occasionally ranch.0
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This dressing is AMAZING! Lower calories and very tasty.
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Just plain old calorie free balsamic. I also love using seasoned rice vinegar.... I could chug that out of the bottle!1
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I make either a vinaigrette (olive plus vinegar -- I have good olive oil for dressings and lots of tasty vinegars) that usually has a lot less oil than the classic recipe or a mustard (I also have lots of tasty mustards) plus vinegar one (usually with a dash of oil).
I also do a spicy one that tends to be based on soy sauce, sriracha, and the juice of a lime, sometimes with other things.0 -
I also eat a lot of salads but I want to replace my olive oil with another HEALTHY oil that is not so high in calories.
The almost full bottle I have is MASTRO and it has 130 c in1 tblsp. I eat a huge salad not a little soup bowl size and so I need about 3 tablespoons of oil. Is there something else that is healthy that I can use or dilute this olive oil...it is expensive. Thanks for any tips...0 -
Just about any Bolthouse Farms Dressing and Olive Garden's Light Italian......0
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Balsamic vinaigrette. A little goes a long way.0
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I also eat a lot of salads but I want to replace my olive oil with another HEALTHY oil that is not so high in calories.
The almost full bottle I have is MASTRO and it has 130 c in1 tblsp. I eat a huge salad not a little soup bowl size and so I need about 3 tablespoons of oil. Is there something else that is healthy that I can use or dilute this olive oil...it is expensive. Thanks for any tips...
All oils are just fat, so about the same in calories.
You can make a good dressing with vinegar (balsamic is good, but lots of them are, experiment and vary it) and less oil -- ignore the classic vinaigrette ratio. For a giant salad I might use half a TBSP and then vinegar to taste, and then just mix it around. You can also add mustard to the mix is you have tasty mustards, as I said above.1 -
Thanks, everyone. Lots of good ideas here. I'll be busy trying out some of these combinations this weekend.0
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Heather4448 wrote: »Cottage cheese mixed with a packet of dry dressing mix.
I love this idea, Heather. I am trying to eat more cottage cheese, so this will make it easy.1 -
My default is Newman's Own Light Balsamic Vinaigrette.
Opa Litehouse Greek Yogurt blue cheese, feta dill and ranch dressings have all been tasty.
Bolthouse Farms Greek yogurt blue cheese dressing was okay. I like Opa Litehouse blue cheese a bit more. I have not tried other Bolthouse Farms dressing flavors.
I like regular Hidden Valley Ranch dressing but don't use it as often these days.0 -
Cucumber
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alteredstates175 wrote: »Heather4448 wrote: »Cottage cheese mixed with a packet of dry dressing mix.
I love this idea, Heather. I am trying to eat more cottage cheese, so this will make it easy.
I do this, and add a bit of mayo, and it makes a fantastic dip for veggies!0 -
I have recently discovered the Wishbone avocado oil dressings.0
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My go-to lately has been plain Greek yogurt thinned out with fresh-squeezed lime juice, then seasoned with some garlic powder and/or Greek seasoning.
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Not the most low cal. It Lighthouse blue cheese. A little goes a long way, but it still adds up.1
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Ken's lite northern italian is my favorite too1
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I like my salads with no dressing at all. That's my favourite way to eat a salad ... just a bit of salt.
However, if the salad is served with Caesar or ranch, that's OK. Not my favourite, but OK.
Most other dressings ... ick.0
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