Puttin' on the spritz.

A big bowl of fresh, succulent salad vegetables is a flawless, low-calorie dish that can help curb inflation on your bathroom scale...unless you overdo the dressing.

With some 70 calories in each tablespoon of a typical regular salad dressing, you can unwittingly turn a net loss (in calories) into a net gain (in clothing size). Light dressings and vinaigrettes out half the calories, and fat-frees cut even more. But one careless twist of the wrist and you can easily drown your unsuspecting veggies in too many calories, too much salt, or both.

Enter Wish-Bone Salad Spritzers. Each spray coats your greens with only one calorie's worth of dressing. Wish Bone suggests 10 sprays per cup of salad, but you could easily use twice that much without putting your calorie budget in peril. (Sodium is a different story. With 10 to 13 milligrams per spray, you'd be smart not to stray too far from the 10-spray serving.)

So break out the greens, grape tomatoes, bell pepper slices, or whatever. You can switch off from Balsamic Breeze to Red Wine Mist to Italian, depending on your mood or menu.

The best part: one careless spritz and you're only 1 calorie and 10 milligrams of sodium over budget.

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