I have been eating what I call a real food diet for about five years now and it wasn't until a few years ago that I decided I should be making my own salad dressings.

Commercially prepared salad dressings contain a substantial amount of sugar and polyunsaturated oils - usually disguised under names such as high fructose corn syrup, glucose-fructose, molasses, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, soybean oil and canola oil. The problem with these ingredients is that they cause inflammation in the body, so I wanted to get away from them as much as possible.

My first step was to switch to olive oil based commercial dressings because I wasn't quite ready to make the commitment to make my own dressings. I had this preconceived notion that it was going to take up too much time and not really make much difference.

Well, I have to say I was completely wrong. Making my own salad dressing isn't as hard as I thought it would be, it didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would, and it tastes 100 times better! Now that I've done it I wish I have made the switch sooner.

Here's my favourite salad dressing to make all those summer salads taste so yummy!