You don’t have to buy pumpkin pie spice mix! Use this recipe on how to make homemade pumpkin pie spice mix to make it at home using spices in your pantry. I never buy pumpkin pie spice at the store, because it is so easy to make it at home. Many holiday recipes call forRead More
Corn Syrup Substitutes + Corn Syrup Substitute Recipe
A corn syrup replacement can be used in many recipes. You can also use my corn syrup substitute recipe if the flavor of one of the corn syrup alternative suggestions would distract from the flavor of a dish. Whether you are cooking for someone with a corn allergy, avoid high fructose corn syrup for personalRead More
How to Substitute Maple Syrup for Sugar and 15 Recipes Using Maple Syrup
Maple syrup can be used to sweetened anything you would normally sweeten with sugar. Here is how to substitute maple syrup for sugar in recipes, as well as 15 recipes using maple syrup. While I realize that maple syrup is a spring food since the trees are usually tapped in the spring. The long shelfRead More
Substitute for Condensed Tomato Soup
Whether your pantry is bare or you have dietary restrictions, if you need a substitute for condensed tomato soup, you will find this quick and easy condensed tomato soup recipe works very well! Are you ever disappointed with a product after you read the ingredient list? Yeah, me too! Even when I am lucky enoughRead More
Seasoned Salt Recipe: How to Make a Substitute for Herbamare
Instead of buying Herbamare or another type of Seasoned Salt, I make my own. Even if I didn’t grow my own herbs and dry my herbs, it would still be more frugal for me to make my own seasoned salt recipe at home as most of the ingredients are commonly found in the spice cupboard.Read More
Dairy-Free Milk Recipes + More Homemade Dairy-Free Substitutes
My oldest son is lactose intolerant. He is also the one who likes milk products more than any of the rest of us. Go figure! I try really hard to find dairy-free milk products that he can safely enjoy. I do buy some dairy-free and lactose-free products at the store, but I am always onRead More
How to Substitute Dried Herbs for Fresh Herbs
Many of us have started drying herbs from our garden in preparation for the first freeze. If you have been using recipes that call for fresh herbs all summer, most of the time, you can use dried herbs instead. Here is a simple guideline for substituting dried herbs for fresh herbs in recipes. How toRead More
Substitutes for German’s Sweet Chocolate
German Chocolate Cake isn’t German. I know, I was disappointed to learn this too! I’m having a mild identity crisis and I’m not even German. Next thing you know someone is going to tell us that French Toast isn’t French. Back to the non-German, German Chocolate Cake. It is actually a cake that is made with German’sRead More
Tomato Sauce Substitutes
Last week I was creating a recipe and decided that I needed 1 cup of tomato sauce. Since I was creating a recipe you would think I would use ingredients that I have on hand, but no, my imagination is bigger than my pantry. After searching to no avail for tomato sauce, I looked for someRead More
Substitute for Chocolate Chips
Today I am sharing some tips for using up milk that is about to expire at The Thrifty Mama. The Chocolate Pudding recipe that I shared calls for 1 cup of chocolate chips, However that is a modification I made to my Grandma’s original recipe. If you avoid chocolate chips because they contain soy lecithin,Read More
How to Make Self Rising Flour, Baking Powder, and a Substitute for Whipping Cream
On Saturday, Vickie shared a recipe for biscuits that only required 2 ingredients: self-rising flour and whipping cream. I really wanted to try them, but I didn’t have self-rising flour and I definitely didn’t want to go out in the snow to get it, so I decided to make my own self-rising flour. Don’tRead More
Powdered Cocoa Substitute
I wonder how many of my posts are inspired by my need to compensate for a silly cooking mistake? This evening after I started making a Cola Cake, I realized that I did not have enough cocoa powder to frost the cake. You can’t just slap any frosting on a cola cake! Cola cake demandsRead More
Flaxseed Meal Can Be Used to Replace Oil or Egg
You can use flaxseed meal to replace either oil or eggs in a recipe. Whether you are cooking for someone who needs to avoid these items or you just ran out of one of them and don’t with to run to the store, use the tips below to substitute flaxseed meal for oil and eggsRead More
Roasted Potatoes and Dry Onion Soup Mix Substitute
I love, love, love roasted potatoes made with onion soup mix. The problem is store bought onion soup mix contains gluten. I had to give up my beloved roasted potatoes until I started exploring the possibilities of making substitutes for some of my favorite items from scratch. I actually have come to enjoy making myRead More
Sweetened Condensed Milk Substitute
Just because we are living out of the pantry does not mean we (and when I say we, I mean my husband) can do without essentials like French Vanilla Creamer. My creamer recipe calls for sweetened condensed milk, which I do not have on hand. There are some great suggestions for making your own creamer inRead More
GF/DF Peanut Butter Cookies & DF Butter Substitutes
To make this recipe dairy free substitute vegetable shortening for the butter. Here is a conversion chart: 1/4 cup butter = 1/4 cup vegetable shortening + 1 1/2 t water1/3 cup butter = 1/3 cup vegetable shortening + 2 t water1/2 cup butter = 1/2 cup vegetable shortening + 3 t water2/3 cup butter = 2/3 cup vegetableRead More
