I'd like to challenge you to make your own salad dressing and ditch your store bought salad dressing. Why? Ever read the ingredeints?
After you do, I hope you'll agree that you and your family deserve so much more! So many ingredients have been linked to serious illnesses and cancer. If that weren't enough, the first ingredient is water. Why pay so much for water and chemicals and preservatives when you can make dressing cheaper and better.
Even the fat free versions have horrible ingredients like high fructose syrup - yuck - and the other stuff that's not meant to go in your precious bodies.
Making salad dressing is so easy and so good. I recommend buying an emulsion blender - it looks like a boat motor and I use mine everyday. If you don't have one, that's OK too. A wire whisk works perfectly.
My cuisinart blender came with a tall plastic measuring up which makes it really convenient to throw some plastic wrap and keep in the frig for about a week.
The ingredients for this vinegrette dressing has endless variations.
2/3 cup extra virgin oil
1/3 cup any type of vinegar (apple cider, balsamic, white wine, raspberry, champaigne, etc)
generous dash of Mrs. Dash or dried herb of your choice or salt & pepper
1 packet of Stevia (or tsp of sugar)
optional: smidgen of a crushed garlic clove
Emulsify and wah-la - great dressing.
I've used variations of lime, honey and fresh cilantro for a southwestern dressing, lemons and oregano for greek salads.
Let me know how you do!
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