Name your salad dressing

Named mine are Fred and Sue :D

HIDDEN VALLEY NOFAT RANCH 30/35 cal  for 2Tb.  Discovered it with a KFC chicken salad. 

WISHBONE NOFAT BLEAU CHEESE 30/35 cal for 2Tb.  Found it looking for the ranch and boy was I skeptical.  This genuinely has the bleu cheese taste I never thought Id find in a low cal dressing.

I could never do italian because of the vinegar taste.  When I ate sub sandwiches, I liked vinegar but with salad its too overpowering for me.

I just use 1 or 2 tbsp of hummus, if I use any dressing at all.

newmans organic balsamic or a lemon squeezed over it

Using Wishbone Just Too Good or Lite Italian. It's 35 cals for 2 tblspns but not very satisying ... looking for good ideas. I bought one of those salad sprays but it's pretty gross.

I like the italian salad spritzers. I love caesar dressing, but the caesar spritzer is gross.

 i was thinking of buying those salad spritzers..

are they really that gross?? and also, to satisfy my tastes, is a few sprays enough? or do you have to spray a TON to get the flavor (in which case I'd rather get a bottle of regular vinegarette or something..)

The spritzer I tried (raspberry breeze) was also gross.  Blech.  I threw the whole bottle out after 2 uses.  On the first use, I didn't eat the salad.  On the second use, I added something else low cal that I can't remember now (to actually add a flavor I could stomach eating), and threw that out, too.  Nothing could save it.  It bites.  I will NOT buy another one, even if they come out with one called dark chocolate bliss.  It adds NOTHING to the salad except a gross essence of badness.  I had to use about 3 times the recommended serving to even be able to tell it was on there.  Once you can tell it's on there, you wish it weren't. 

I'm quite happy to stick with my current standby favorite Wish-Bone Light French (50 cals/serv).  I also have a Hidden Valley Light Ranch that is also really good (tastes like the regular) but has more cals (80 cals/serv), but it's still very thick and creamy, so a little goes a long way.  I agree the WB Light Italian isn't the same.  It's ok, but it isn't the same as regular.  Calorie-wise, it's a bargain as far as dressings go, but something about it is a little off.  WB Balsamic Vinaigrette with Basil is also good.  A little of this also goes a long way. 

Besides me mediocre to bad taste I hated the consistency.

Interesting about the dislike of the spritzers.

I figured that the only thing coming out of those spray nozzles them would be oil, vinegar and/or water.  The normal herbs and spices seems they would clog it.  Then I wondered if they used some type of imitiation liquid flavors to vary them.  Theyre really a mystery to me. 

Im glad I read it hear though - have always been curious and thought although gimmicky, a good way to disperse dressing. 

Believe it or not.. I eat salad without any dressing:)

i also gave away the spritzer because it tasted like pure vinegar (not even flavored basalmic, just awful, plain vinegar).

i'll have to look for lo-cal blue cheese - that does sound too good to be true.

i usually go for salsa and cottage cheese with a drizzle of honey mustard.

i also dress salads with warm steamed vegetables from the hot line in our cafeteria at work. Peas & carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, squash, broccoli all work great on top of a salad. The warmth softens & moistens the salad greens so their flavors come out better & they are softer and easier to eat without any salad dressing at all (but i still add the salsa & cottage cheese).

I'm like safina1 -- I usually eat my salad without dressing, I grew up eating it this way (mine always had to be served first, before my mother put the dressing on).  However, when I want a dressing it is generally ranch -- and fat-free ranch dressings are horrible (to me anyway), so I only go with low fat -- I find Naturally Fresh Light Ranch to be perfect for my tastes.  I only use 1 tbsp instead of two (I was shaking my salads LONG before Mickey D started it), and I find the thinner consistency works best this way.

kraft fat free italian (only 5 cals per tbsp in canada, whee!)/balsamic vinegar/asian flavoured spritzer/plain yogurt/cottage cheese/salsa/plain

Im addicted to ginger dressing. It tastes exactly like the one you get at the Japaneese Steakhouses. I found it in the refrigerated section of the supermarket not with the other salad dressings.

I often call my salad dressing SALSA

:)

salt, red wine vinegar and olive oil

simple and the best!  :-)

Safina and coach k, you are seriously hardcore.  Oh how I wish.  I never thought Id tolerate the nofat but not a deal breaker anymore and you get so much more.

Sun123: It is the way how you grew up... my family didn't serve any dressings with the salads.. maybe some lime juice that is all. Anyway, salad dressings have a good taste and you can count the calories.. better than my chocolate cravings LOL

Sun123:  I don't know, I never liked anything the rest of the family put on it (I also don't eat onions, so I had to be served before those were put on, or get in trouble as I was picking them all out -- hmmh, wonder why I became the designated salad maker???)

I love raw veggies so much, it really is a wonder why/how I gained my weight (oh, a pound of celery still has calories, and *ahem* that chocolate cake safina1 is always talking about...) -- but really I do, I will go to the salad bar, fill up on crunchies (the regular stuff, not that new fangled salad fixin's) and chow away.  Eating tomatoes, cucumbers, or green peppers they way others would eat an apple is not unusual for me.

Hey Sun,

Crazy, but Wal-Mart Med. Salsa and WM Non-Fat Yogurt make an excellent dressing.

Olive oil