While most persons wouldn’t exactly think of a substitute for shortening, well, because shortening is awesome, what happens when you run out of this awesome fat? Stop cooking and find something else to make? Or pause your cooking and run to the closest grocery store to get some? No, you don’t have to do any of that because there are shortening substitutes right there in your kitchen. There’s no way you wouldn’t have at least two of these substitutes available…Except you don’t have a kitchen.