Salad dressings

If you want to eat truly healthy, support your fat loss goals, and
avoid some of the nasty additives in processed food, one thing you
should eliminate is typical store-bought salad dressing.
And here's why?

1. Almost all store-bought salad dressings contain fairly large
amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).  Unless you're in a
health food store, it's almost impossible to find a salad dressing
that doesn't contain large amounts of HFCS.

2. Almost all store-bought salad dressings contain heavily refined
soybean oil and/or refined canola oil... both of which are VERY
unhealthy. Yes, that's correct, canola oil IS unhealthy, despite
the marketing propaganda you've been fed claiming that it's
healthy. You can read more about why canola oil is NOT healthy
here.

Due to the refining process of both soybean or canola oils, the
polyunsaturated component of the oils is oxidized and makes these
oils very inflammatory inside your body.  In addition, soybean oil
is WAY too high in omega-6 fatty acids which throws your omega-6 to
omega-3 balance out of whack.

We know that olive oil is healthier, but when it comes to
store-bought dressings... Even salad dressings that claim to be
"made with olive oil" on the FRONT label are deceptive, because if
you read the ingredients on the BACK label, they are almost ALWAYS
made of mostly refined soybean oil or canola oil as the main oil,
with only a very small amount of actual olive oil as a secondary
oil.

So here's how to avoid all of these horrendously unhealthy
store-bought salad dressings and make your own quick and easy
SUPER-healthy dressing...

My Quick and Easy Recipe for Super-Healthy Salad Dressing

Geary's Healthy-Fat Blend Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing

Fill your salad dressing container with these approximate ratios of
liquids:

    * 1/3rd of container filled with balsamic vinegar
    * 1/3rd of container filled with apple cider vinegar
    * fill the remaining 1/3rd of container with equal parts of
extra virgin olive oil and "Udo's Choice EFA Oil Blend"
    * Add just a small touch (approx 1 or 2 teaspoons) of real
maple syrup
    * Add a little bit of onion powder, garlic powder, and black
pepper and then shake the container to mix all ingredients well.

This homemade salad dressing mixture is delicious and healthy, and
I pretty much never get tired of it!

The reason I choose to blend the extra virgin olive oil half & half
with the Udo's Choice Oil is that they make up for what each
lacks... Although extra virgin olive oil is healthy and contains
important antioxidants, it is mostly monounsaturated, and is low in
the essential fatty acids (EFAs). The Udo's Choice Oil is higher in
unrefined polyunsaturated oils with a good healthy balance of
omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids.

There are several variations of the Udo's Choice Oil, and one of
them (labeled DHA 3-6-9 Blend) even contains a DHA algae oil
blended into the mix along with organic flax oil, coconut oil,
evening primrose oil, rice bran oil, oat germ and bran oil, and a
few others.

Overall, blending Udo's Oil with extra virgin olive oil makes
nearly a perfect oil blend for salad dressings with a great taste
and maximum health benefits.  If you can't find Udo's Choice Oil
Blends (you can find Udo's at almost any health food store), there
are other EFA oil blends on the market...just make sure that they
are COLD-processed to protect the EFAs.  You should never heat an
EFA oil blend!

Give this homemade super-healthy salad dressing a try!  You'll do
your body a favor by avoiding the harmful additives in store-bought
salad dressing.