Shelf Life of
Substitutions

Making dinner and you’ve run out of an ingredient in your recipe? Open the sour cream to find new colors or start pouring the milk and find big chunks landing in your cup? The eat by date has passed and you need a quick recipe substitute! Recipe calls for something you never buy or costs more than you are willing to spend? No time or energy to run to the store? For the answer to any of these dilemmas, just use our handy charts to find an ingredient equivalent. Save yourself a trip and try one of these suggested recipe ingredient substitutions.

Many ingredient substitutions actually improve the recipe if done correctly. Many substitutions save you money by not requiring an expensive purchase of something that you just need a little bit of and know the remainder will probably go to waste. Save yourself the hassle by finding a suitable substitute for the ingredient you’re missing.

When reading our tables on the ingredient pages, you may see many different options for some ingredients – the first one in each list is what we feel the most desired substitute. Following are the products that we have recommended substitutions for: