Is it me or is the week moving fast?? It could be me. This will be the first weekend in 3 weeks that I have off and I can't wait! I have a 5k Saturday morning and then afterwards we are going to brunch. After that get my mani/pedi and then a birthday dinner. Honestly I might skip out on the dinner though...
Salad dressing, love it...hate it. I am one of those people who could eat a salad everyday whether it be a side or my whole meal b/c I make a kitchen sink salad. My salads have every veggie I have in my fridge...carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, red onions, mushrooms sometimes cucumbers, recently cut out the cheese and topped with slivered almonds or sunflower seeds. Well what tops my salad?? Glorious Blue Cheese. Forget ranch, thousand island, french, catalina, vinaigrette, pass me the damn blue cheese. Until recently I liked salad with my blue cheese. My coworkers used to refer to my salads as a blue cheese bowl. It took me a while to realize the dressing was negating my healthy salads. I have been working on using the actual portion size, but when I make my big salads portion size doesn't work. Not enough salad dressing. What do you do about that? So in counting my calories, I have paying attention to calories in a serving size of salad dressing. Depending on which brand I use that day a serving size of blue cheese dressing can run from 100-160 calories. Since I started counting calories it almost seems crazy to spend 160 calories on basically a condiment. I've tried vinaigrettes and I haven't been able to find one that I like. I even forced myself to eat vinaigrette dressing on my salad for a week but all it made me do was me not look forward to the meal where I had salad. So I need help...What salad dressing do you all use? I need to find something soon, so I don't bleed blue cheese dressing!
Happy Hump day!
If you find an answer to this one, I'd love to hear it! I avoid salads for the same reason--not that I don't like a good chop salad, but it's just not very healthy once you load it up with all the "good stuff" and the dressing. I usually eat roasted veggies instead of salad: cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, zucchini, mushrooms--minimally dressed with a mist of oil and some dry spices.
ReplyDeleteI used to add a healthy dollop of salsa to my ranch dressing to extend the volume and cut calories. Not bad.
Emily
Good luck in your 5K on Saturday!
ReplyDeleteGirl, I cannot stomach Blue Cheese because of the way it smells. I call it funky-but-chunky Blue Cheese. Okay, so I am not a salad dressing fanatic, so I am fine with a little oil and vinegar. Sometimes I will put fresh salsa on my salad. NOt the jar salsa, but the salsa that's in the produce section. Lately I have been using Maple Grove's Balsamic Vinegarette or Raspberry Vinegarette because it's low in sodium. I have high blood pressure so I have to watch the salt.
ReplyDeleteUgh, I'm not help because Blue Cheese makes me wanna vom and I love vinegar based dressings!! lol
ReplyDeleteBut I did wanna wish you good luck on your 5k on sat!!
I love salads and salad dressings. I try to keep my dressings between 20 to 60 calories - just like you i don't want to lose ground . You do have to try different kinds out. I love the Marzetti line. They have light options - like honey dijon -and some great Vinegarette -raspberry in particular. Kraft has a spicy mango Vinegarette that I am digging now. I tend to visit the salad aisle every couple of grocery store trips for something new. But, I've certainly struck out on ones I don't like.
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