One of the best ways to make sure that your salads are good for you is to prepare your own dressing. You can make yourself a fresh, tasty dressing of your choice for the whole week in about ten spare minutes. Eating your own dressing with a prepackaged salad will not only save you plenty of calories and enhance the flavor of your salad, it will also save your body from the effects of preservatives and chemical stabilizers found in dressings bought over the counter.
It is very easy to produce your own tasty salad dressing. Try pouring one tablespoon of olive oil into a cup,
squeeze in the juice from half a lemon, mince a couple of cloves of garlic into the cup and add a tablespoon of brown mustard and a tablespoon of dried mint. Whisk the concoction together and put into a container to take with you to work.
This recipe is not much lower in fat content than bottled dressings found in the store, but you are missing out all the preservatives and creating a good, fresh taste that you cannot find out of a bottle. Once you have discovered how simple it is to concoct your own dressings, you will never buy bottled dressing again.
Also, many dressing packets show their serving as being one pouch, disguising the fact that one pouch contains three full tablespoons of dressing, which is more than you actually need for even a big salad. One tablespoon will be enough if the salad is tossed well enough. Anymore than this and you are just adding unnecessary fat and calories.