This may have been covered at some point, but as I was eating my salad with my lunch today, I started to think about how my opinions over salad dressings have changed. When I first started eating healthier, I used mostly the very lowest calorie dressings I could so that I could up the toppings on my salad, like having more olives, chicken, cheese, etc. These were usually some sort of fat free vinaigrette. Over time, though, I started observing my nutrition and it turns out that since I was eating low fat/fat free nearly everything, I was running low on fats (sometimes not even 20g per day!), which is easy to do when you're trying to eat bunches of low calorie, high bulk foods like veggies and fruits and low-fat dairy. So, my opinion changed... I slowly went up to low-fat dressings and today on my salad I had full fat green goddess dressing. They also say that the fat in the dressing helps for you to absorb the nutrients in the salad veggies, so that's a plus. If I were eating nuts in my salad or something, I would probably use a low-fat dressing to balance it out.
So what do you do? Do you tend to use the super low calorie fat free dressings? Low-fat? Full fat? I'm just curious.