[STARLIT]

Thank you so much for the Ranch dressing recipe. I copied down your homemade Ranch dressing recipe because I haven't had any for years. I am very allergic to pre-made Ranch dressing. Seriously allergic. When I look at the ingredients I have to scratch my head. I do know I can't have bought pre-made dressing or soup mixes.

I also can't eat ANY salads or salad makings out in a restaurant. They put preservatives on and it throws me. You mentioned roasted tomatoes..I had them added to an Italian sandwich a while back and I got sick within an hour. Our foods are life-threatening. They are killing us with preservatives!

A hospital doctor said I would be wasting my time having test done because today many of our foods have been tampered with one way or another.

[DollyCali]

NIKK.. thats why I do mostly all scratch cooking. I do canned tomatoes and sauce. The fire roasted tomatoes I use (Hunts) haven’t caused problems but everyone’s body reacts differently. Im especially fond of sun dried tomatoes in pasta dishes and many other uses. I often soften them in white wine for recipes where a softer product is nice. Now and then I can get a decent size bag of overripe tomatoes really marked down (like a couple pounds for a dollar). they immediately get washed and put in crock pot for something. chili, soup, pasta. Ill cook them up slightly with onion & garlic & freeze some and use the rest immediately

I do make about half of our salad dressings. Jen buys a few she likes that I dont make. We are getting nothing from China. USA or Mexico only for produce. Specialty chesses from europe or other ethnic products on occasion.

Restaurant salads often prsent a problem for guests as they prepackaged greens which a large majority of restaurants use, spray with a preservative that tears up some people (me) and digestive comfort.