No matter how well-stocked you keep your pantry, there is bound to come a time when you need an ingredient for a recipe but your cupboard is sadly lacking. Or, maybe you are making changes in your diet and need suggestions on substitutions for fats, meats, sugars or whatever. These substitution resources are helpful to have on hand.
Food Substitutions
In response to reader requests for a variety of different substitution charts, this resource listing runs the gamut from herbs and spices to health and diet substitutions. To navigate back and forth between this list and the resources, use your browser's BACK button to return to this page.
• Alcohol Substitutions for Cooking
This chart gives suggestions for substitutes for various alcoholic ingredients in your recipes.
• Heirloom Conversions
Need help figuring out weights and measures in Grandma's heirloom recipes? This chart will help you understand those oftimes cryptic instructions.
• Herb Substitutions
Check this chart for substitutions for various herbs.
• Spice Substitutions
Check this chart for substitutions for various spices.
• Cooking with Sugar Substitutes
Information and tips on cooking with sugar substitutes in handy chart form.
• Cook's Thesaurus Substitutions
Cook's Thesaurus has literally thousands of substitution suggestions, including fruits, meats, herbs, and much more. Cream of the crop!
• Vegetarian Substitutions
Vegetarian Times has excellent suggestions on meat substitutions for meat-free, vegan, low-fat, yeast-free, allergy, ethnic, and alcohol-free vegetarian diets.
• Sweetener Substitutions
This document from the NDSU Extension Service gives alternative substitutes for refined sugar in baked goods, including info on how it affects the final product.
• Ingredient Substitutions
Aunt Edna's Kitchen has a substitution chart for common ingredients including flour, milk, sour cream, sugar, and more.
• US to UK Substitutions
Culinary Cafe has a great page for those wishing to convert US recipes into UK ingredient equivalents.
• Ingredient Substitutions
Kansas State University's ingredient substitution chart is hyperlink-indexed with alphabetical listings in a nice chart.
• Healthy Baking Substitutions
The electronic Gourmet Guide provides suggestions on ingredient substitutions to lighten up your baked goods.
• Salt Substitutions
Tribune-Review has recommendations for ways to substitute other ingredients for salt in your diet.
• Ingredient Substitutions
Land O Lakes has information on ingredient substitutions from alcohol to molasses.
• Adapting And Altering Recipes
The Culinary Cyber-Sleuth has an interesting article on remaking recipes with various substitutions and/or reductions.
• Ingredient Substitutions & Equivalents
Mississippi State Extention Service has an easy-to-read chart of substitutions for foods, herbs and spices.
• Low Fat Substitutions
Fabulous Foods has suggestions on substitions to reduce the fat in your foods.
• Substitutions to Beat Cancer
Health World Online suggests food substitutions in your diet to avoid cancer, plus tips.
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