Are there any good store-bought salad dressings without preservatives and tons of salt? Am

[meryl]

specifically looking for Italian and Blue Cheese, but am open to other ideas. I've tried Marie's, which is okay, but not great.

I make my own French vinaigrette, which I love, thanks to David Lebovitz, but I really don't want to make my own blue cheese dressing - tried it a few times, and that was enough. There are too many other things to make from scratch that are more important to me.

 

[melissa-dallas]

Marie's is the only one I can stand because it's NOT sweet. How do you make yours from scratch?

 

[meryl]

I just wing it with sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, blue cheese, black pepper...

 

[Guest]

The blue cheese dressing recipe in "Joy" is good.

I have it in a word file so it would be easy to share if you like.

 

[melissa-dallas]

That's about what I do. Thought maybe I had a faster idea.

 

[cynupstateny]

I put buttermilk in, too.

 

[karennoca]

I used to buy Marie's Blue Cheese dressing all the time but have not in years

it used to be excellent. I did buy a Marie's Thousand Island last week and it is very good so I think their quality control is still OK. Now, when I want a blue cheese dressing I make a champagne vinegar vinaigrette and add Maytag Blue Cheese. Saves calories and yet gives me that blue cheese fix I crave.

 

[melissa-dallas]

You can make creamy with reduced fat mayo & lots of buttermilk too.

 

[mistral]

try putting blue cheese into a batch of original Ranch Dressing. . .

The original Ranch, that you need to make with buttermilk and mayonnaise. Pretty good and you can make it as cheesy a you wish.