17 Simple Food Swaps For When You Run Out Of Ingredients
This quarantine-focused guide provides practical ingredient substitutions for common baking and cooking staples, recognizing that grocery shopping becomes difficult during lockdowns. The substitutions cover basics like butter, eggs, dairy, flour, and sugar, as well as aromatics, herbs, and proteins, with specific measurements to help maintain recipe integrity. While acknowledged as imperfect flavor matches, these swaps allow home cooks to continue cooking with ingredients already on hand rather than abandoning recipes mid-preparation.