Why Ordering Dressing on the Side Sucks Ass + Other Ramblings

Ugh.

You know what drives me nut-so?

When girls point their long acrylic fingernail at the waiter & say “I’ll have the Caesar salad, no croutons & dressing…on the side.”

Like she’s so avant-garde ( insert gagging noise here ), right?!

Um…no.

Like, sorry that I’m not sorry but that’s not working for me.

Here’s why: typically restaurants over-dress a salad.

BUT.

Bringing a half of cup of dressing on the side sets me up for failure.

I’m set up to pour too much. I’m set up to dip my lettuce in the side of dressing. I’m set up to over-dress the salad x 10 without even realizing it.

Fail.

Keep it simple, stupid.

Order a salad with light dressing. Or take it step further: order a salad with no dressing and ask for olive oil, balsamic, & lemon and make your own damn dressing ( << this is fun + easy + quick ).

This sounds stupid…to talk about salad dressing…but apparently it’s a real epidemic: over-dressing salads.

& don’t even get me started on tossing an at-home salad.

I mean, really. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

This online source says to “always check the nutrition label on the bottle, and as a rule of thumb, avoid any dressing that exceeds a hundred calories per serving ( figure that one serving equals two tablespoons ). If you see the words “partially hydrogenated” anywhere on the ingredients list, it means the product contains trans fat, which is a definite no-no.”

And there ya have it- don’t be a victim of over-dressing!

#theskinnyconfidentialproblems

X.Lauryn