Weight-Loss Healthy salad dressing ideas?

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TheLlama

TheLlama

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Hey, i need some healthy salad dressing ideas or just some healthy food ideas, I usually just eat chicken and salad but i need healthy sauces/salad dressing ideas, Simple recipes or something that can be bought pre-made is good. Is it a bad habit to constantly need some kind of sauce with food? i cant seem to eat anything without it.
What kind of food besides salads and fruit do you eat?
 
You can buy low calorie salad dressing. Alternatively maybe a small amount of low fat cottage cheese.

Generally sauces can introduce a lot of calories onto your plate. Maybe it is more habit and you could have less sauce if you try.
 
If you don’t use a healthy salad dressing, your salad could contain as much fat and calories as a bacon cheeseburger. Mayonnaise-based salad dressings can stifle your weight loss efforts with empty calories and saturated fat. Just two tablespoons of the average Ranch or Thousand Island dressing contains approximately 14 grams of fat, and 5 of those grams are saturated fat. Saturated fat is known to cause obesity and heart disease. You can still have a great tasting salad that is also nutritious. Here are 4 healthy salad dressing options that won’t ruin your diet:

1-Oil and Vinegar
2-Cottage Cheese and Dill
3-Yogurt-Based Salad Dressing
4-Avocado Salad Dressing
 
I quit using salad dressing. I found that peppers and fruits were a way better way to add flavor to a salad. I love peppers, so chopping up some green peppers, banana peppers, and maybe even throwing a little ground black pepper on the salad is delicious! Or, slice up some grapefruit or an orange! Some people like cherry tomatoes, etc. There are lots of ways to add a lot of the same flavors salad dressings have (bitter, sweet, tangy, etc.) without as many calories, sugar, or fat!
 
I get the unnamed name brand dressing packs and follow their recipe for low fat - basically more vinegar and less oil. You can add stuff to it to change up the flavor, too - extra ground pepper or some garlic powder, for example.
 
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My advise: don't get ridiculous, because "FREE" salad dressing tastes like crap.
You do NOT need ranch or 1000 island or creamy italian dressing on a salad. You don't need to pile up cheese or fried chicken chunks either.
BUT if you don't have a little oil or creamy stuff, there's no point in eating a salad because it will taste terrible.
People who suggest things like Free dressing (yes, i mean fat free) or salsa or non fat yogurt just don't seem to have any taste buds.
Like some of the posts above, Yes, they will have hardly any calories, but you WILL NOT enjoy them, and you will also not benefit from any healthy caloric intake.
(strictly my opinion, but still the truth!)
And for me, eating any salad, big or small is going to be way better than most meals I eat. So seriously, you HAVE to eat. Enjoy your salad, enjoy your calories, eat your veggies, but like all things, don't over do it, or you'll get tired of eating salad all together.
Count your calories. Lettuce has pretty much zero calories anyway, so everything you add is what's going to make you fat. If you have 200 calories from italian dressing, and 200 calories of sliced turkey, you've got a pretty good sized salad, that will still fill you up and only 400 calories.
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Seriously, maybe that's how some 70 lb. underweight teenagers eat, but trying to substitute every last teeny bit of fat seems ridiculous to me. You gotta live, so eat.
 
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Romans5.8 said:
I quit using salad dressing. I found that peppers and fruits were a way better way to add flavor to a salad. I love peppers, so chopping up some green peppers, banana peppers, and maybe even throwing a little ground black pepper on the salad is delicious! Or, slice up some grapefruit or an orange! Some people like cherry tomatoes, etc. There are lots of ways to add a lot of the same flavors salad dressings have (bitter, sweet, tangy, etc.) without as many calories, sugar, or fat!
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I honestly don't know how anyone can actually consume a salad like this. I'd rather chew on cardboard!
 
I have to agree with Monster here... When I was on that "Paleo" nonsense, the few salads I ate didn't have any oil... Jesus, I don't even used salt... Eating that "thing" was just painful...

I don't need much, A bit of oil and salt and I'm happy, but forget about any kind of enjoyment whatsoever if you don't add anything.

Edit: Also, What's that mayonnaise nonsense? A tbs (Which I think is plenty) of the light mayo I have at home has 2.4g of fat (Or 21.60 calories from fat). Add the other stuff (I.e: Carbs, etc) for a great total of 28 calories per tbs. So you have to either add a lot of mayonnaise or add the wrong stuff to get fat on it.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think that mayonnaise (and I'm talking purely about mayo, not the ranch dressing) is even remotely good for your health, but comparing it to a bacon cheeseburger is just wrong.
 
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okay... aside from everything else I've said........
What about just a plate of fresh "salad veggies"? like green peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, etc.
You can also include a small amount of dressing (just count your calories)
and you'll be fine.
Or even frozen veggies like broccoli, green beans, cauliflower, or peas?
Not everyone likes every vegetable, but there has to be a few that you like.
One of the food that I try to always keep in refrigerator is carrots. They fill me like crazy. I just have them around to stop my binges.
 
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My favorite and healthy vegetable salad dressing combines olive oil (of course extra virgin), honey, garlic powder, pepper powder, a pinch of salt and paprika. healthy and too tasty. All time favorite.
 
You require some fat (healthy fats) in you diet to absorb vitamins and minerals. I do enjoy salsa on my salad (with some cheese and avocado). I also like balsamic vinegar - raspberry flavoured is my favourite.
 
Healthy salad dressing easy to make or readily available at any grocery stores

There are various healthy salad dressing easy to make or readily available at any grocery stores. My personal favorites include, yogurt, buttermilk, white wine, fresh herbs such as chives, tarragon, basil or dill. Then you have honey, lemon, mint leaves, various Asian spices all these tastes amazing and are less in calories and fat making your salad healthy and tasty at the same time.
 
Use lemon, vinegar, mixed powder(like mango), some green mint leaf, and salt to make it delicious.
 
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