Roasted red peppers work well as a sub. Personal experience!!
Canned (or jarred) roasted red sweet peppers work just fine!
sun flower seeds
Some good pimento cheese recipe can be found at the Wisegreek website and the Shockingly Delicious website. Both website contain a lot of pimento cheese recipe for home use.
raisins
use butter flavored crisco You could use margarine. http://www.ukfoodies.co.uk has a delicious cookie recipe, this recipe has butter, but you could substitute it with margarine.
You could use squash or maybe carrot depending on the recipe
If you don't like coconut, you can substitute it in a recipe by using chopped almonds instead. Alternatively, you could use macadamia nuts.
Yes, you can substitute brandy instead of sherry in a cookie recipe.
You can replace the sugar in the recipe for Splenda, which is a sugar substitute.
how much mayonnaise do you use to substitute for egg called for in receipe
nutmeg or allspice
Yes, we can substitute buttermilk for milk in recipe.
You can use either pimentos or pimento as the plural.
Carob powder. Depends on the recipe, sometimes a coffee liquer will work.