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You can use almost any fruit juice. Some unexpected ones might give
surprisingly good results (tomato juice, maybe?). Also, many wines work
well (very dry ones, anyway). An interesting salad dressing we had in
turkey just used salt and water in place of vinegar. But they also used
tons of onions to give the salad flavor. Not everyone will like this.

Can you use ingredients which have vinegar in them, such as mayonnaise,
ketchup, etc?

    I always make my own with:
    
    olive oil,
    vinegar,
    Salt,
    soy sauce
    lemon pepper
    
    You could try changing the vinegar with lime or lemon juice.  I've used
    that all my life and never got tired of it because it is healthy, low
    in calories and takes very little to make a nice salad. It has become a
    standard at home...
    
    A

Just curious, how do you happen to know that it's healthy and low in
calories? It does sound tasty, but you've got olive oil (typically 2
parts in 3), which has plenty of calories, and salt and soy sauce -
loads of sodium. Not that I find either fat or sodium to be health
risks, per se, but your dressing doesn't sound like it's especially "healthy".

I'm curious as to what it is about the vinegar that prevents you from using it?

No idea if the author has this problem, but many people have severe
allergic reactions to anything fermented (e.g., vinegars, etc), or
anything produced by molds (e.g., cheeses). I don't know the details of
these reactions, but I've heard they're occasionally fatal (though rarely).

    I often make a salad dressing based on yoghurt, esp. bulgarian yoghurt.
    You can add salt, pepper, carlic.
    But other ingredients mix very well with yoghurt too, just try.
    
    Jose (reading this notesfile to compensate a diet).

    
    My nutritionist has me on a detox (anti-candida) program so no vinegar
    (nor anything containing it), no wine, and lots of other no-nos
    including wheat(spelt is ok instead), dairy products, etc.  I'm
    basically only allowed chicken, fruit, vegetables, nuts, spelt flour
    products (bread, pasta), rice,  butter and olive oil.  Hopefully I'll stop
    feeling so tired and we can then introduce a bit more variety.
                                   
    

    reply to 7.
    How we I know it is healthy? well, let's see. Olive oil lowers low
    density colesterol from our systems... (my father had a heart attack
    over 20 years ago and was on a low fat diet, but anazingly, olive oil
    was NOT removed from his diet because of the above properties. Animal
    fat, including butter and cheeses, were forbiden. 
    Salt is needed in our system and only people with high blood pressure
    or other health problems should be cautious of it... in parts of the world 
    with high temperatures salt is helpful to dehidration... I think that
    the problem is when we "abuse" these ingredients when they became not
    so good anymore....
    
    1 tablespoon of olive oil,
    2 of vinegar,
    about 1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce
    a pinch of salt and pepper for 6 people is pretty healthy to me when
    compared with the amount of calories found in six servings of blue
    cheese salad dressing, creamy italian dressing, etc, etc.
    
    If you add the total calories of the above 4 items versus "all
    ingredients" in other dressings you will notice that mine is pretty
    healthy... (no MSG, or sugar, or emulsifiers, preservatives, etc.etc.)
    
    If my dressing doesn't "sound healthy" to you, is blue cheese or any
    commercial brand any healthier and lower in calories to you, than my
    easy, tasty, and spartan recipe?
    
    No pun intended, but if you have a tasty recipe lower in calories than
    mine, that still tastes good, please post it, I'd love to try it.
    
    Ana