Seven simple salad dressings

One of the easiest and most delicious things you can do to put healthier food into your body is to learn some recipes for homemade salad dressings. Once you start, you'll probably never buy the bottled stuff again! Homemade dressings just taste so much fresher. And you can be sure there's no corn syrup or {insert evil sweetener of your choice here} in it! I usually use Splenda, but use whatever you want. Most "Lite" salad dressings you buy in the store are low fat, but that just means a higher percentage of the product is carbs, and most likely, sugary ones.

Here are seven of my favorite homemade salad dressings I've posted here in the past. For a healthy body, happy taste buds!

Buttermilk Ranch (made with Greek yogurt)

Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette

Tex-Mex Dressing (three ingredients!)

Ginger-peanut Salad Dressing

Almost-Panera's Asian Chicken Salad Dressing

Lemon (or Citrus) Poppyseed Dressing

Caesar Salad Dressing

Update: bonus recipe...

Creamy Italian Dressing

Thirty-Second Caesar Salad

This is the perfect lunch or snack for when you have no time, or when you need to make up for yesterday's pig-out on carbs.

Take a heart-of-romaine leaf, spread it with your favorite sugar-free Caesar dressing (I like Caesar Caesar, by Litehouse), layer on a few slices of smoked turkey, and sprinkle with grated Parmesan. One or two makes a great snack, several make lunch.

Of course, you could substitute your favorite Ranch or other thick, sugar-free dressing, and your favorite deli meat, or chopped hard-boiled eggs if you want to go vegetarian.

How easy is that?  :)
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Orange-cranberry chicken salad
Chicken club salad with creamy balsamic vinaigrette
Ginger-peanut dressing