Salad dressing??

If you want a creamy dressing you can make one quite easily (if you have a food processor) from nuts or seeds, for instance sunflower seeds or cashews. Soak the seeds or nuts for a few hours and blend with water and maybe a little vinegar and salt/spices until creamy. They DO have a high calorie count, but of course it's all good stuff!
I also find that spices really make a huge difference in a salad. A little salt and herbs make the difference between bland and yummy imo (but then again I'm a bit of a salt fiend)

I like Newman's Own Light varieties, especially the Ginger Sesame one. One serving = 2 Tbsps but if my salad is small 1 Tbsp is enough.

i use salsa...my favorite is the trader joes pineapple salsa...it is so YUMMY

Whatever kind you decide to use, try to master the art of "salad shaking" haha... Many people pour dressing right onto their salad and have to use a lot of get it distributed to all the leaves, but if you just put one tablespoon or less for 2 cups and you shake the salad (put one bowl on top of the other with both bottoms facing out and shake it, or cover with plastic wrap and shake), it gets the flavor distributed while using much less

Fat free ranch is actually pretty great.

Kraft Fat Free Caesar Italian dressing is really good and not a "creamy" dressing!

My advice would to be measure it when you put it on and then log it! I typically use EVOO and balsamic or raspberry vinegar, but I've also made some tasty dressings using additional ingredients.

For example, this recipe has the yummiest dressing: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/strawberry-and-feta-salad/detail.aspx

I don't use nearly as much on my salad as the recipe suggests, so it's not too bad. And totally worth it... This whole salad is mouth watering good! haha

I found the wishbone Salad Spritzers are pretty good. Im not a fan of the vinegrette taste but these work for me.

I like blush wine vinaigrettes - I find a little goes a long way.

Though - my most favorite salad dressing is Blue Cheese... which is THE most fattening dressing out there. And low fat and fat free are horrible to me. I would rather go without. What I DID find - I have had salads with apples in them and like that sort of flavor... so what I do now it, measure out a 1/4 C. of feta or blue cheese crumbles (the FF Feta is actually pretty tasty - just don't try to melt it in any recipes) and dump about 1/2 C of apple sauce on my salad. (no sugar added applesauce, of course!) I figure it probably cuts out about a bazillion calories from my salads.

I like extra virgin olive oil with white wine vinegar, salt, freshly ground pepper. A teaspoon of oil for me is enough for about a 2 cup salad, especially if I have other flavors going on (a little feta in the salad, peppers, etc).

Of course, I also love blue cheese dressing, like someone earlier mentioned. But since I try to eat about 1200 cal/day, that is saved for a special treat
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I like Newman's Own Light varieties, especially the Ginger Sesame one. One serving = 2 Tbsps but if my salad is small 1 Tbsp is enough.

me too

I also put it on my salmon and broccoli

Here is my recipe for my salad dressing:
2T olive oil
4T white wine vinegar
2T lemon juice
1T honey
1T dijon mustard
finely chopped shallot, small

I will use 1-2 tablespoons of this per person depending on the size of the salad.
This will make a good amount of dressing, and it stays in the fridge for 7-10 days and it totally worth the 5 min. it takes to make versus using gross bottled lite dressings.

... gross bottled lite dressings.

One of the things I like about the Newman's Own is that it doesn't have a bunch of that fake-tasting alternative stuff. It just has less oil.

I like my salad naked, I'm just that kind of person. I do this by adding home made fruit salad to the dressing, the juice from the fruit will, in my opinion, act as a salad dressing, light and...fruity (obviously) and super delicious!

I posted and saw someone said cottage cheese, I'll use that, or a chicken/tuna salad on top for protein, and again, delicious and not need for dressing.

be sure to serve it on the side with your salads you will find that you will eat less that way instead of pouring it on your salad

This is an excellent tip and I always do this in restaurants. When I make salads at home, I measure out how much I'm putting on the salad. I love creamy dressings and to increase the amount of dressing without drastically increasing calories, I like to mix lite ranch dressing with salsa. I usually do 2 parts salsa to 1 part dressing. It gives it a little kick without a large amount of calories.