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Real Food Cooking and Baking Substitutions

KSeppamakiDecember 4, 2013October 22, 2022

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When I began switching to a real food lifestyle I encountered a big problem. I wanted to avoid unhealthy ingredients. But struggled to swap the ingredients I was trying to avoid with healthier options. Therefore I simply didn’t know how much of each healthier option to use! So I’ve been compiling this real food cooking and baking substitutions for a while. And I created this handy little chart to help you out!

Real food cooking and baking substitutions

Ingredient

Used For

Substitutes

Notes

White sugar

Baking and cooking

Sucanat, Rapadura, Stevia, unfiltered honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, coconut sugar/nectar, turbinado sugar See the bottom of the page for substitution amounts for cooking and baking

Brown sugar

Baking and cooking

Sucanat, Rapadura, coconut sugar, palm sugar These can be used as a 1:1 substitution.

Any refined flour

Baking and cooking

Sprouted wheat, white wheat, spelt, buckwheat (GF), or brown rice (GF). Can soak organic whole grain flours. Using sprouted flour is much more simple. Soaking requires an additional 12-24 hours.

Vegetable Shortening

Baking and cooking

Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Organic butter (pastured), leaf lard (highest quality lard), tallow Don’t skimp on these substitutes! Our bodies need this good quality fat!

Cornstarch

Cooking

Arrowroot powder, sprouted brown rice flour, tapioca flour Most commercial cornstarch contains GMO corn. That is a good reason to switch!

Chocolate Chips

Baking

Enjoy Life Brand Chocolate Chips There is soy in most store-bought chocolate. Avoid soy and buy these really tasty chips instead!

Granulated natural sugars can be substituted in a 1:1 ratio in your baking recipes.

What if you want to substitute honey or maple syrup for granulated sugar?

White Sugar to Honey/Maple Syrup/Coconut nectar ratios

1/8 cup sugar=1 tbsp honey/maple syrup/coconut nectar

¼ cup sugar=2 tbsp honey/maple syrup/coconut nectar

½ cup sugar=1/4 cup honey/maple syrup/coconut nectar

¾ cup sugar=1/4 cup + 2 tbsp honey/maple syrup/coconut nectar

1 cup sugar=1/2 cup honey/maple syrup/coconut nectar

2 cups sugar= 1 cup honey/maple syrup/coconut nectar

3 cups sugar=1 ½ cups honey/maple syrup/coconut nectar

Now you can easily find simple substitutions for your cooking and baking needs. And these are much healthier options for you!

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7 thoughts on “Real Food Cooking and Baking Substitutions”

  1. Black Fox Homestead says:
    December 5, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    This is awesome! I’ve been working on converting my holiday recipes so this is perfect. I’ve pinned this for future reference. Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
    1. Katmill says:
      December 5, 2013 at 3:10 pm

      You’re welcome! So glad this will help you out! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Janet France says:
    December 6, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    Since reading how coconut sugar is made and the toil it takes on the tree I prefer not to use it. I’d rather have the coconut oil than the sugar, plenty of sweet stuff on the planet to use instead 🙂 Thanks for this article!

    Reply
  3. SR Booth says:
    December 12, 2013 at 10:07 am

    Nice list. Thanks! (and I love Enjoy Life Brand Chocolate Chips ;>) Yum!

    Reply
    1. Katmill says:
      December 13, 2013 at 5:28 pm

      You’re very welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  4. CToth says:
    October 24, 2017 at 6:29 pm

    Thank you so much for doing the converting . I have referred to this many times and am grateful and appreciative.
    ❤️

    Reply
    1. KSeppamaki says:
      October 24, 2017 at 6:44 pm

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply

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