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Salad Dressing Showdown: The Best Store-Brand Ranch and Italian

365 Organic Ranch and Organic Italian salad dressing bottles on a wooden surface with other assorted dressing bottles in the background.
Romaine calm—we’ve got every leaf covered from Ranch to Italian! Photo credit: Bryan M. Vance/Stumptown Savings.

From Meg: Welcome to this year’s Salad Week taste test, where we searched for the best store-brand ranch and Italian dressings. This was done in conjunction with Bryan M. Vance at Stumptown Savings, and is a version of a piece he ran last week. Many thanks to Bryan, Elsy, and Heather for participating in this experiment that yielded—for me, at least—surprising results. Read on for all the ranch and Italian dressing taste test goodness.

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The Battle of the Portland Deli Salads: 9 Enter, With a Surprising Clear Winner

Salads for the Portland deli salads tasting.
The Portland deli salads.

Portland’s grocery stores compete fiercely for deli dominance, but which makes the best of the Portland deli salads? When Meg Cotner of Bridgetown Bites reached out about participating in Portland Salad Week, I jumped at the chance to settle this with an old-fashioned taste test.

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