The Healthiest Holiday Dressing

Hello tender friends!

A quick reminder that my little boo boo and I are not bots!

Ok , glad that’s out of the way. Tis the season for cookies? Cakes? Hot chocolate?

Well, not over here, as you can imagine. Of course that photo looks charming, but alas, it’s not part of my holiday season (and that’s ok).

My seasonal indulgences this time of year tend to be in the form of heavy meat consumption. When the weather cools, I often joke that I could eat an entire cow.

My words aren’t far off though. As soon as the weather turns cold, I get noticeably hungrier and can’t help but to eat more meat and cheese. My body craves calories to sustain the cold.

But I balance this out with my (almost) nightly salad!

Raw onion is a must on salads for me. It adds satisfying flavor, and raw onion and raw garlic contain important probiotics that we often cook out when we eat them cooked. (I also eat a ton of cooked onion and garlic, but I make a point of getting raw onion/garlic in as often as possible).

And for dressing, I use apple cider vinegar with a dash of olive oil and a drizzle of raw honey. (Raw honey contains enzymes that are lost when it is processed). It’s amazing! You can enjoy your crispy refreshing salad and detox from the veggies and apple cider vinegar at the same time!

If you’re dismissing this as dressing, please give it a try! I used balsamic dressing for years and only started using apple cider vinegar instead when I was at a friend’s house and she didn’t have any balsamic. I already knew that apple cider vinegar was healthier, but I was initially very attached to my balsamic.

The first few times I used apple cider vinegar I dressing, I just felt neutral towards it. But after a few times, my taste buds adapted, and now it’s all I want.

I don’t live a life of deprivation – I genuinely relish my nightly salad. And I don’t miss bottled dressing (which is typically full of garbage) at all. I love getting a double healing detox this way-the cool crisp of lettuce crunching and the tangy acv balanced by the sweetness of the honey.

As the holiday season continues, may this double detox help you through! Blessings to all of you as we prepare to celebrate the technically inaccurate day of Jesus’s birth!

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  1. Regal woman@TransamEagle

    Yum- sounds so good!

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    1. Stacey

      It’s so refreshing!

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      1. Regal woman@TransamEagle

        I just made a natural dressing with apple cider vinegar last night and was really interested in all the facts you gave for its benefits.

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  2. Awakening Wonders

    I’m with you I just can’t tolerate all the garbage in most store-bought dressings! The salad looks so very yummy!

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    1. Stacey

      I (shamefully) loved ranch dressing when I was a kid. The last time I tasted it, years ago, all I could taste was chemicals!

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      1. Awakening Wonders

        Yes, chemicals!!

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  3. ladysheepdog

    We are trying to go homemade and natural more and more, we have a long ways to go, but we are doing much better than twenty years ago. Its a work in progress.

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    1. Stacey

      It is definitely a process, Susan. I’m so happy you and your family are making progress as you’re able!

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