Good Seasons Italian Dressing

[Amstearns]

Has anyone made the Good Seasons Italian Dressing using 1/4 cup oil and 1/4 water? If so, how many calories do you log for 1 Tablespoon?

Thanks!

[Esya]

If the dressing consists of 50% oil and 50% water, then a tablespoon would be  1/2 tablespoon of oil. Hope this is what you meant and that it helps.

[Dominique]

@Amstearns: do you have a kitchen scale (one that weighs to the gram)? That would be the easiest way to find out. FWIW, I measured my daily fish oil intake (slightly less than a tablespoon) at 8 grams. Of course, not all tablespoons are exactly the same size, hence the advantage of using a scale, at least once.

[Dominique]

If you’re making your dressing in bulk quantities of half a "cup" (*), and splitting that into servings that are one tablespoon, just put half a "cup" of water and count how many tablespoons that gets you. Then divide the weight of 1/4 of a cup of oil by that number and you’ll know the weight of the oil in one serving. One gram of oil is 9 calories.

(*) "cups" are convenient as a rough unit in recipes, but if you want to log your intake accurately, nothing beats weight. Hence my suggestion of using a scale. If you don’t have one yet, consider getting one: they’re inexpensive and easily available (no need for a fancy one).

[Amstearns]

Thanks for your help!

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[Amstearns]

Thank you!

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