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Speaking of salt do you~~~~~~~~~

15 years ago

put dressing on your salads??? That adds hundreds of extra calories to a healthy food item. I stopped using dressings about 2-3 years ago I eat my salads naked;) If we are some place that has a good fresh handmade dressing that sounds different I will ask for a small amount to dip my fork in then into my salad and try it. But I will not add it to my salad or eat it all~~~I feel so much better since I stopped having dressing on my salad it used to make me feel ill the rest of the day~~~to many seasonings I do not know about in it.

Now if I could give up sweets that is my struggle right now.

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Pieonear
15 years ago
I use olive oil and lemon juice.
ruthieg__tx
15 years ago
I've learned to do dressing on the side and was surprised at how much less I use......
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linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
By ordering you dressing on the side and sticking your fork in the dressing before you stick the salad, you will only use about 1/3 the dressing and get the same taste. A little hint from WW.
alisande
15 years ago
I've always made my own dressing (olive oil, etc.) and always preferred my salads under-dressed. But I don't think I'd be crazy about naked salads.

My dressings aren't unhealthy. Right now I'm using EVOO with fresh lemon juice from beautiful Meyer lemons generously sent to me from a friend who grows them in CA. Yum!
azzalea
15 years ago
I, too, ask for my dressing on the side, and then add just a little to my salad, stirring it well so that a little goes a long way.

I don't do it so much for health reasons--after all, we DO need a certain amount of fat in our diets and I'm a LOT healthier than a lot of people who consistently deny themselves--I just don't like the taste of a salad that's swimming in dressing.
glenda_al
15 years ago
Dressing on the side for me. I like to control the amt of of dressing
gardenspice
15 years ago
I use plain balsamic vinegar most of the time, but i do sometimes indulge in Annie's Naturals Sesame Shitake dressing, but with a light hand.
patti43
15 years ago
I like it on the side unless it's a Caesar salad, then I want it all glopped together. Yum!!
wildchild
15 years ago
I use dressing on the side. Like Linda In Iowa I just dip the tines of my fork before grabbing a bite of salad. I don't even think I use a third of the dressing. more like a tenth. Far less than a tablespoon.

Can't even eat a pre-dressed salad these days. Too slimy.
3katz4me
15 years ago
I use a little drsg but always on the side. What I've grown to despise are bottled drsgs. I make my own balsamic vinaigrette now - or some variation of that.
summer_tx
15 years ago
Yep, try to always ask for dressing on the side. I was with a table full at Red Lobster recently and got distracted and didn't request "on the side" and boy, was I sorry. My salad was inundated with the stuff. ugh! I won't forget again. At home I eat the very minimum of dressings and it's "Lite".
sheilajoyce_gw
15 years ago
I like just a little dressing and always order it on the side at restaurants because they drown salads in dressing there.
User
15 years ago
I very rarely eat salad. When I do get one in a restaurant, I let them put it on the salad. When I have salad at home, I make a home made oil and vinegar dressing. It's all I grew up on when I lived at home. I never had bottled dressing until I left home.

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