I've been meaning to post this and I can't recall if I did already. I have one piece of decent advice for people and I want to share it.
If you love ranch dressing, DO NOT buy Hidden Valley Ranch LIGHT! Buy regular Hidden Valley Ranch. Hidden Valley makes the best ranch I have tasted yet. It is so good, that I am happy to pay more to buy it.
I bought the light version for two reasons:
1) it had less calories. and if you check out the nutritional info on hidden valley ranch, you can see how it might compete with a small candy bar.
2) the light version didn't substitute in weird chemicals.
but it lacks that special something and trust me, you will notice it every time you eat it, on salad, with buffalo wings, on a potatoe...
I wasn't expecting it to be the same, but its not even comparable.