Welcome to
SPEND WITH PENNIES
Hi, I’m Holly and I couldn’t be more excited to introduce our amazing team to you! We have some incredibly talented and dedicated team members who help keep this blog running each and every day! Between social media, promotions, amazing creative talent, recipe creation and photography these women both inspire and amaze me every day!
(More about Holly here…)
KRISTEN
SOCIAL MEDIA & BLOG MANAGER
Kristen is our Social Media & Blog Manager and an integral part of Spend With Pennies! She spends countless hours looking after the day to day operations of the blog, making sure everything’s running smoothly and overseeing our social media scheduling.
CANDACE
BUSINESS MANAGER
Candace learned a love of food and cooking from her mom and grandma. Having worked as a successful CFO for a thriving marketing company, Candace now manages the business aspects of Spend With Pennies.
With a huge passion for food, Candace loves to bake and cook. Dinner parties are a regular event in her household! Candace loves trying new recipes and flipping through cookbooks and webpages to find new ideas to mix in with her favorites. With a young daugther and baby son, variety is always on the table!
DONNALEA
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT & CONTENT MANAGER
Donnalea has been friends with Holly for years and is now the Production Assistant and Editor at Spend With Pennies. In addition to helping with video and food production, Donnalea loves to cook and entertain friends and family. She spends any extra hours at her lake property with her husband, son and two daughters. She loves to try new recipes and to modify them for her 3 fussy eaters! In her house, “food makes the mood” so finding interesting and fun recipes is a necessity!
BAILEY
SENIOR EDITOR
In addition to writing and editing on Spend With Pennies, Bailey enjoys travel, filmmaking, and cooking new recipes for his friends and family.
Rachael is the creator of the food and travel blog Eazy Peazy Mealz where she shares simple to make recipes for busy families. She loves food and the power it has to create traditions, family bonds, and memories, and strives to share delicious, practical recipes with easy to find ingredients and simple instructions. Beyond food, her passion is travel, and she is regularly found away from home, with her 4 kids in tow, exploring the world. Her favorite way to experience a new place is through her tastebuds, and with hands on cooking classes. And she loves sharing what she has learned with her readers.
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Ashley is a high school teacher turned food blogger and a mother of 3 beautiful girls. She loves to get creative in the kitchen and doesn’t always like to follow The Rules. Ashley shares a combo of healthier main dishes, baked goods and decadent desserts and believes in enjoying all the foods you love in moderation, and sometimes without ;). You can find Ashley at The Recipe Rebel.
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FOLLOW AMANDA
Amanda is the creator behind the food blog The Chunky Chef, where she shares comforting family meals, and the healthy food blog Smart Skinny Recipes, where she shares delicious family recipes that are on the lighter side. She firmly believes life is all about balance; eat a salad, but enjoy some bacon along with it! When she’s not in the kitchen, you’ll find her behind a camera, reading, and spending quality time with her husband and 2 children!
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FOLLOW KELLIE
Kellie is the creator of The Suburban Soapbox, a food and lifestyle blog. A busy mom of two and former marketing manager, she created her website as a way to share recipes and household DIY tricks with her corporate coworkers. Kellie is always on a quest to consistently create the fastest, tastiest dinners that every family will love, even the pickiest of eaters. Her recipes are fool-proof and suitable for quick weeknight dinners and easy entertaining.
A lover of travel, wine, butter, chocolate and cheese (in that order), Kellie finds inspiration for her food creations just about everywhere she turns.
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VALENTINA
Valentina is a busy wife and mom of five children. She immigrated from Ukraine to the US as a young girl. Growing up, she was accustomed to foods of the Russian (European) cuisine. When she got married and had her own kitchen, she really started to experiment with different foods and cuisines and fell in love with creating recipes combining unique flavors. She now runs a blog, Valentina’s Corner, where she shares her passion and love for from-scratch food, creating content and sharing it with others.
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REBECCA
Sugar & Soul is where Rebecca blends her traditional roots and millennial imagination. She is a self taught baker, photographer and traveler with a business degree and a dream. Rebecca is married to her high school sweetheart, Matt, and currently resides in Central Maine. Rebecca will definitely inspire you to bake a batch of cookies or head off on a new adventure!
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