Current Events > Something thats hard to do? Eating a salad without ranch dressing.

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My triglycerides are high. I will admit I am bare minimum mode (which mean I still have a long way to cut out fatty foods out of my diet.) But one of the first thing I want to work on was not using so much ranch dressing on my salad.
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you just gotta find a good vinaigrette friend

Dude, that's not hard. It's fucking impossible.

a little olive oil and lemon juice works

never trust someone who eats salad with no type of dressing/seasoning

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

never trust someone who eats salad with no type of dressing/seasoning

You're right. They exercise self control and we can't have that

I never use ranch. Salt, balsamic vinegar and olive oil is the way to go

Suolevram posted...

You're right. They exercise self control and we can't have that

do you go into vegetable gardens and eat straight from source

StormSignal posted...

you just gotta find a good vinaigrette friend

I think so. Any recommendations?

Suolevram posted...

You're right. They exercise self control and we can't have that

Lol

VampireCoyote posted...

a little olive oil and lemon juice works

Someone just told me that.

masterpug53 posted...

Dude, that's not hard. It's fucking impossible.

Lord knows I am fighting a uphill battle.

Raspberry vinaigrette is the best kind of salad dressing, imho. Can't go wrong there.

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

do you go into vegetable gardens and eat straight from source

Not usually, however I have gone to town on some carrots straight out of the dirt.

omniryu posted...

Lord knows I am fighting a uphill battle.

I've tried lite Ranch before. To say that it tastes bad doesn't accurately describe it: it tastes like 'nothing,' as in the infinite void beyond accurate human comprehension, the nausea of existential despair in the pit of one's stomach as described by Jean-Paul Sartre. Some lite food and drink is fine, some is bad, but lite Ranch is existential dread in a bottle.

masterpug53 posted...

I've tried lite Ranch before. To say that it tastes bad doesn't accurately describe it: it tastes like 'nothing,' as in the infinite void beyond accurate human comprehension, the nausea of existential despair in the pit of one's stomach as described by Jean-Paul Sartre. Some lite food and drink is fine, some is bad, but lite Ranch is existential dread in a bottle.

Avoid ranch lite, duly noted.

K181 posted...

Raspberry vinaigrette is the best kind of salad dressing, imho. Can't go wrong there.

Will give it a try.

do you like spicy? chili vinaigrette is how i prefer to eat salads

Just use less. Ranch goes a long way but we don't always realize it because we glob it on. Start by using half the Ranch you used to do. Shake your salad for a good distribution. Then move to half that.

Alternatively, blend up some cottage cheese and add ranch powder to it and use that on your salad instead. It's much healthier.

Tiny bit of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, salt and pepper. There you go.

fuck no it's not, ranch is disgusting

Nightmare_Luna posted...

do you like spicy? chili vinaigrette is how i prefer to eat salads

I have to be careful around spicy. I also have an ulcer and GERD.

Compsognathus posted...

Just use less. Ranch goes a long way but we don't always realize it because we glob it on. Start by using half the Ranch you used to do. Shake your salad for a good distribution. Then move to half that.

Alternatively, blend up some cottage cheese and add ranch powder to it and use that on your salad instead. It's much healthier.

I never had cottage cheese. Originally, I was thinking of using a quarter of it. However, i was thinking about my overall fat intake for the day and i know i am going to eat something that has some type of grease or fat in it later on today.

pinky0926 posted...

Tiny bit of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic, salt and pepper. There you go.

I have garlic herb does that count?

omniryu posted...

I have to be careful around spicy. I also have an ulcer and GERD.

I never had cottage cheese. Originally, I was thinking of using a quarter of it. However, i was thinking about my overall fat intake for the day and i know i am going to eat something that has some type of grease or fat in it later on today.

I have garlic herb does that count?

Careful of pre-made dressings and sauces. The easiest way to make them tasty is to load them with fats and sugar, which are calorie heavy.

The ingredients I gave you could be combined in like 1 minute.

Last night I just mixed olive oil with red wine vinegar for my salad dressing. It was pretty good.

never trust someone who eats salad with no type of dressing/seasoning

yeah lemme just put this gross ass oily shit on top of these nice fresh veggies

Bolthouse farms has a relatively low calorie yogurt based honey mustard dressing (i think 45 cals/2tbps which is more than enough for the salads I eat) that I really enjoy

Fluttershy posted...

never trust someone who eats salad with no type of dressing/seasoning

yeah lemme just put this gross ass oily shit on top of these nice fresh veggies

Yup all dressing is just "gross oily shit". All you're telling us is you've had nothing but shit salads to the point where you can only eat them generic and plain now.

those are the kind of clumsy, all-logy-with-oil mental gymnastics i'd expect out of someone who eats salads that are so bad that they literally need to drench them in the worst part of the food pyramid.

pinky0926 posted...

Careful of pre-made dressings and sauces. The easiest way to make them tasty is to load them with fats and sugar, which are calorie heavy.

pinky0926 posted...

Careful of pre-made dressings and sauces. The easiest way to make them tasty is to load them with fats and sugar, which are calorie heavy.

And that's another thing I am avoiding sugar. I am told I am pre diabetic and I have cut back on sugar the last few months (although I pick back up some bad habits here and there).

I mainly drink zero sugar drinks. I have Stevie for my cold and hot tea. The only issue I have is family forcing me to eat the sugary, fatty, and heavy carb stuff. I hate that shit. The only time I want to be cool with it is during Thanksgiving and christmas.

Scintillant posted...

Bolthouse farms has a relatively low calorie yogurt based honey mustard dressing (i think 45 cals/2tbps which is more than enough for the salads I eat) that I really enjoy

I am gonna look that up as I leave work.