How often have you gone on a wild-goose chase for an ingredient a recipe calls for, or just skipped over an ingredient entirely, bewildered by where to begin? That's where this list of alternatives will come in handy! Knowing these ingredient swaps will allow you to cook for yourself and your loved ones in a way that satisfies everyone's dietary needs - and may save you an extra trip to the grocery store.

Baking Swaps

• Butter = margarine = coconut oil

• Heavy cream = coconut cream

• Dairy milk = almond milk = any dairy-free milk

• Sugar = brown sugar = date sugar

• Almond flour = slivered almonds ground into very fine crumbs

• 1 egg = 3 tbs flax-seed meal plus 6 tbs water

• Apple sauce = mashed banana = cooked pumpkin, sweet potato or carrot puree

• Grated zucchini = grated carrot

• Spaghetti squash = spiraled raw zucchini noodles = spiraled raw sweet potato noodles

Cooking Swaps

• Yellow onions = red onions = pearl onions

• Olive oil = canola oil = melted coconut oil

• Almonds = pecans = walnuts

• Soy sauce = tamari

• Hoisin sauce = BBQ sauce

• Cod = Chilean sea bass = any fatty fish

• Halibut = flounder = haddock = any flaky white fish

• Basil = cilantro = parsley

• Capers = chopped pitted green olives

• Kale = romaine lettuce

• Glass noodles = thin rice noodles

• Nutritional yeast = grated Parmesan