A healthy green salad with carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and perhaps just a few slices of chicken sounds like a low fat lunch to help you lose weight. And it is until you ladle on the salad dressings. Mayonnaise and oil-based dressings have up to 100 calories per teaspoon. One teaspoon doesn't cover a lot of lettuce.
Order your salads with the dressing on the side so you're not temped to eat all of it. Dip the tines of your fork in the salad dressing and then spear up some lettuce and cucumbers. You'll taste the dressing but not go overboard.
Ask for oil and vinegar on the side. Or for fresh lemon quarters. Use the oil sparingly and the vinegar and lemon liberally.
The traditional ratio for salad dressing recipes is one part oil to one part acid. Instead use one part oil to two parts acid.
Or eliminate the oil completely. whirl a tomato in the blender with fresh basil, or a cucumber with parsley and use that as the dressing.
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