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Three Reasons and Three Recipes to make Homemade Salad Dressings

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The reasons are:

  1. It’s frugal.
  2. It tastes better, by far!
  3. It’s wholesome.

The recipes to get you started:

Thousand Island Dressing (not Atkins friendly)

  • ½ cup mayonnaise
  • 2 Tbsp ketchup
  • 1 Tbsp vinegar
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 2 tsp sweet pickle relish
  • 1 tsp onion flakes (or minced, fresh onion)
  • pinch each- salt and pepper

All you do is mix all the ingredients together and put it into a pint jar, pop the lid on and keep it in the fridge.  If there’s still any left after a couple of weeks, rinse it down the drain and try a different recipe.  Y’all would have finished it in a few days if it were something you really adored!

Ranch Dressing (my favorite!)  The Squid likes it too!)

*This is a low carb recipe.

  • ½ cup mayonnaise
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • ½ tsp parsley flakes
  • ¼ tsp dried dill weed
  • ¼ tsp garlic powder
  • ¼ tsp onion powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • pinch of pepper
  • splash of ½ & ½

Same method as for the Thousand Island Dressing.

Italian Dressing

* Another low carb recipe.

  • 1 cup olive oil
  • ¹⁄3 cup red wine vinegar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp dry mustard
  • 1 tsp onion flakes (or minced onion)
  • ½ tsp dried Italian seasoning
  • ½ tsp paprika

This one you can mix right in the pint jar.  No need to dirty a mixing bowl.  Just put all the ingredients into the jar, screw the lid on and shake it well.  You ‘ll want to give it a good shake every time you use it.  Good stuff!  It can also be used as a marinade for chicken or beef.

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3 Comments

  1. Thanks for the homemade recipes! Thanks for linking your post to TMTT.

  2. MotherHen says:

    Hi Melonie,
    Homemade ketchup is almost as easy! HFCF is a grand thing to stay away from. :D

  3. Melonie K. says:

    My daughter lives for ranch and ketchup – I’ll have to give this ranch recipe a try! I’m trying to get rid of all the condiments and crud that have HFCS in them.