Salad dressing

Olive oil, Balsamic vinegar, Mrs. Dash Garlic spices, fresh ground pepper, parmesan.

Actually found it. It's Maple Grove Farms

The hell with dressing have you just tried squeezing a lime????? delish!

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I haven't tried the following recipe yet. I had to order the white balsamic vinegar from Amazon. I should receive it soon, and then I'll make it. Ranch is my favorite, but it is so calorically dense that I only eat it occassionally



Low-fat Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 13 • Size: 1/4 cup • Old Points: 1 pts • Points+: 1 pts
Calories: 52.3 • Fat: 2.0 g • Carbs: 5.5 g • Fiber: 0.0 g • Protein: 3.4 g • Sugar: 3.7 g
Sodium: 288.8 mg

Ingredients:
3/4 cup fat free sour cream
3/4 cup fat free Greek yogurt
1/3 cup Hellman's light mayonnaise
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tbsp chopped fresh chives
1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
1 tsp salt
freshly ground pepper
1-2 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
2 cups 1% low fat buttermilk
Directions:

In a small bowl or large measuring cup, combine the sour cream, yogurt, mayonnaise, garlic, powder, onion powder, parsley, chives, salt, and cracked pepper. Mix well.
Stir in the white balsamic vinegar; then buttermilk.



Adjust the seasonings to taste, adding another tablespoon of balsamic vinegar if desired. The flavors will become bolder over time.

A really good tip for making your own salad dressing is grate some onion or shallot right into your salad bowl, add some sort of acid (vinegar, lemon) and some salt. Let these sit while you chop the rest of your salad ingredients. Finish off your salad dressing right in the bowl by adding some Dijon mustard and some sweetness like maple syrup or some fruit such as grated apple, orange juice, or blended berries. Mix it together well with a whisk, add some oil as well if you like but it doesn't really need it. Toss all your salad ingredients in the bowl with the dressing and serve.
This is really low cal and fat free if you don't make it with oil.

http://cultavegan.tumblr.com/post/21738916873/

Don't know if this link works but I posted this on my vegan blog.

I just use plain balsamic vinegar (not the dressing...the real vinegar) just a little of that and it's yum! My partner did a couscous salad today she found some recipe that was low on cal for a lunch and did couscous in chicken stock so it would be slightly liquid but not completely and put that over her salad and she loved it.

2 TBSP Apple Cider vinegar
2 TBSP Mayo ( I used the 1/2 olive oil kind)
2 TBSP Olive Oil
2 TSP garlic powder
1 garlic clove
dash salt/pepper

mix together and allow flavors to meld, dress salad about 1/2 hour before serving. It'll give you killer garlic breath though, so don't make it on date night!

Find some aged balsamic vinegar. It's full of flavor and very few calories. No need to add olive oil, just the balsamic.

1-2 garlic cloves minced
tsp olive oil
red wine vinegar to taste
balsamic vinegar to taste
1 tsp dijon mustard ( will help emulsify with less oil)
salt and pepper

I use Hidden Valley Lite Ranch and mix it with buttermilk. 1/2-1/2. Even my husband can't tell the difference.

I use this one a lot, or some variation of it based on what's available. You can adjust the herbs and spices to your tastes. Google Apple Cider Vinegar and you will see that there are all kind of health benefits. I had gout. Bought a couple gallons of ACV. Got tired of doing shots of it and started using it in my cooking. Experienced some level of gout for 10 years. Haven't had a gout attack now in 6 months since I started using ACV

Apple Cider Vinegar Salad Dressing
1 cup of olive oil
1/2 cup of Apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon of onion powder
2 tablespoon of whole grain mustard or djion type mustard
2-3 cloves of garlic minced
1/2 teaspoon of dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon of dried basil
1 teaspoon salt

This sounds great, but some how I expected to see knob creek. ;-)

Tom Thumb has one by eating right, blue cheese yogurt dressing.
45 cal per 2tbsp, 3g fat, 280 sodium 4 carbs.
You can find it in the veggie section not on the aisle with other dressing.

It's really good.

Not homemade, but the nutrition on it is okay all around and it tastes SOOO good!

yes, this...yum

I like the Walden Farms too, but not all of them..I really like the raspberry vinegarette one a lot for a summer type salad and especially love the zero calories!