How do you eat your salads?

I love salads, especially in summer time. I also love all types of salad dressings. I know some people are like "don't use that it has so much hidden sugar or fat" but I honestly don't care.
As long as I portion it out correctly and keep it within my calorie limit there's no issues.
Some of my favourites are:
Newman's Own Creamy Caesar or Caesar Vinaigrette
Creamy Balsamic
Or recently I've been making a vinaigrette with olive oil, white wine vinegar, wholegrain mustard and a bit of salt and pepper

I love ranch and recently tried the Hidden Valley Ranch made with greek yogurt. It's 60 calories per serving (the regular is 120 per serv) and it tastes very very close to the original. Also- I really dislike greek yogurt by itself so if you do too you may still like this. I discovered that I really like salsa as a nice low calorie dressing as well.

Thousand Island, French, or Catalina. I just use light or fat free and the food scale to keep the calories down.

I usually eat mine without dressing, just salt and pepper. In all fairness though, tonight's salad was almost 2 lb of lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, pickles, sweet corn, one avocado and 7 oz of oil drained tuna. That would be a salad for me. I don't get the sides... I mean either you DO, or you don't.

If I need dressing, I'll just dump in a Greek yogurt, thinned a bit and with dried basil, sage, oregano etc. mixed in.

Depends. Anything from a very light drizzle of light balsamic dressing to a good dollop of ranch, to getting my dressing on the side and dipping my fork before stabbing the salad. Depends on my calories for the day.

Also, I prefer a form for eating salad.

I use 13g of quality olive oil (and you should too) plus 1tsp of balsamic. Much of the stuff found in grocery stores have been cut with other oils. A 500ml EVO first press bottle of oil selling for less than $20 has been cut. A tsp of good oil will burn the throat a little. https://texashillcountryoliveco.com/ Sola Stella (Lone Star) is my fav.

Olive oil should be included in our daily diet & with a little motivation you can find a way to work it in.

My salads generally include raw squash, zucchini, black eye peas, olives, tomatoes, Greek peppers & sometimes raisins, sometimes jalapenos.

I typically go with something light... Honey Mustard (there are some good light versions too), or balsamic are common. Any vinaigrette including lighter ones are usually good. One place has a lime vinaigrette that was tasty and only 25 calories. If I may mention a brand, "Ken's" has a great line of light dressings including a sesame ginger vinaigrette that is wonderful.

However, once and a while as a treat I like a little blue cheese dressing. This in the one case I will go full fat. I will be conservative on the amount, but it's one dressing that "lite" just does not work well.

AmyC2288 wrote: »

I love ranch and recently tried the Hidden Valley Ranch made with greek yogurt. It's 60 calories per serving (the regular is 120 per serv) and it tastes very very close to the original. Also- I really dislike greek yogurt by itself so if you do too you may still like this. I discovered that I really like salsa as a nice low calorie dressing as well.

I like their Greek Yogurt dressings too! I think the ranch is good and the spinach/feta dressing is tasty as well.

I like bolthouse farms dressings, and other “lighter” options. I sometimes just squeeze some lemon and ACV as well too. And then top it off with other seasonings like black pepper, chilli flakes, cilantro, etc.

I don't use dressing. I use either avocado or hummus to "glue" the salad together.