The 5 BEST Things You Could Ever Buy at a Grocery Store

The 5 BEST Things You Could Ever Buy at a Grocery Store Here are the five best things you could ever buy at a grocery store. Not advice; educational purposes only. Financially speaking, of course. I'm Tyler. I'm a former financial advisor and portfolio manager, and now I make financial content for free so you don't have to pay for it. No. 5. Butter over margarine. Margarine was invented in 1869 as a cheap butter substitute for the French military and has been unsuccessfully pretending to be food ever since. Real butter costs marginally more, contains one ingredient, has been consumed by humans for 10,000 years without incident, and performs better in every culinary application. Spreads in the tub with the health claims on the label. Contain partially hydrogenated oils. The list of ingredients that requires a chemistry degree just to understand it. Buy the butter, cook with the butter. The French have been doing this for centuries, and their cardiovascular statistics are inexplicably just fine. No. 4. Whole carrots. Not baby carrots, not pre cut carrots. Whole carrots, $1.29 a pound, last three weeks in the refrigerator, and are literally just carrots. Baby carrots are whole carrots that have been processed, cut, and tumbled into a shape that cost about 40% more. You're paying for the shape, and the shape does not taste better. No. 3. Dried lentils. $1.80 a pound, 18 grams of protein per serving, more fibre than almost anything else in the store, and they cook in 20 minutes without soaking. Lentils are the most nutritionally efficient food in the entire Building, and they cost less than a bottle of water in the checkout aisle. No. 2. Hate them or love them, but I think you should love them. Canned sardines. Highest Omega 3 content per dollar, more protein per ounce than chicken. Sustainably sourced, approximately $2.50 a can. And the reasons Americans avoid them are usually purely aesthetic. Whereas the Norwegians, Portuguese, and Spanish, who have been eating them for centuries while maintaining considerably lower rates of heart disease, officially approved this message. And number one, a whole cabbage, approximately a buck fifty, lasts about two weeks in your fridge without an existential crisis, and is genuinely one of the most nutritionally dense items in the entire produce aisle. Nobody talks about cabbage because there's no marketing budget for cabbage. It's precisely why it's still a dollar 50 and tastes amazing if you slice it up and add some Mayo, vinegar, and lemon juice. That's called Coleslaw, kids, and it's delicious. And if any of this is helpful, sign up for my free weekly newsletter by clicking the link in my bio, and each week I'll send you over another money playbook that actually works.