Sometimes (or maybe most times) a salad is hard to get everyone to embrace.  It just doesn't have the excitement of a baked potato dripping with butter or sour cream.  But if you have the right salad dressings on hand, I find I can get everybody on board.  I realize I'm not reinventing the wheel here or anything but bottled Ranch just doesn't cut it for me.  Ranch is not hard to make, you pretty much have most of the ingredients on hand and while its not exactly "healthy" you don't need a lot to make your salad yummy.  The vinaigrette and carrot miso dressings below do aire on the healthier side so if the ranch ingredients freak you out try the others….and they last for several weeks so you can make a big batch and have it on the ready.