Salad Dressing

Photo by KEKO64. Published on 7 Oct 2013
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I just had a salad.  A very good salad, though I still add too much to it.  I like adding a little cheese, and often a protein.  Here is my concern:  Salad dressing.  How many salad dressings are there out there that don’t ruin or take away the health benefits of the salad.  I had an Italian dressing that was only ten calories but I doubt it was healthy and I can’t find it again.

I know that I am supposed to let my taste buds adjust and learn to like healthier things.  I just don’t know where or how far I want to go with this.  I know I want to cut out the whites (white rice, flour, potatoes, and sugar).  I also know that one of the best things you can do for your health is get as many photo nutrients as possible.  Photo nutrients are just plant nutrients.

A huge amount of research says eat your veggies.  Eat them raw, eat the steamed, eat them in a stream (if its summer).  Since all our streams are currently frozen. And I am not into making a lot of veggie soups or stews right now.  I want to have more salads.

I want to have more salads and I like salad dressing.  I think I could make a good tzatziki sauce that’s low in calories, fat, sugar, and salt and yummy.  However it would be using Greek yogurt and I’m unsure about how healthy milk products are.  Actually now that I’ve said that I think if I keep them to a minimum they could be okay.

I am so torn I have so much now knowledge that conflicts with my old knowledge.  I also know what I like now and what I like know is not healthy.  So eat more veggies is good, I got that much.  They are to be a primary food source.  Does anyone out there have good healthy salad dressing recipies? 

I am willing to eat large salads but I do want something on them.  I’m just not sure if that will be good enough to help me get as healthy as I want to be.  Any thoughts?