Meet The Team
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
SENIOR EDITOR & 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 helps manage 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
EDITOR & SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT
In addition to writing and editing on Spend With Pennies, Bailey enjoys travel, filmmaking, and cooking new recipes for his friends and family.
SAM
Sam is the creator behind the dessert blog Sugar Spun Run, a website she began as an excuse to appease her insatiable sweet tooth. Here she shares original, from-scratch desserts, usually of the chocolate variety. If she’s not in her kitchen (more likely than not coated in a fine dusting of powdered sugar), you’ll probably find her hanging out with her husband and their two dogs, Penny and (Princess) Leia.
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Nagi is the voice, cook and photographer behind RecipeTin Eats, [Australia’s top food blog]. She believes that anyone can make amazing food with everyday ingredients, even if you’re short on time and cost conscious.
Nagi walked away from a corporate career to follow her passion for food. She truly believes that great food brings family and friends together, and more smiles into your life. She also firmly believes that whoever invented cheese deserves a Nobel Prize.
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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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Catalina thinks that time in the kitchen should be fun, and we should spend less time cooking and more time eating! As a successful business woman with a busy career on Wall Street, she creates fool-proof recipes for busy weeknights. Catalina will inspire you to experiment with flavors, try new ingredients, use your slow cooker and pressure cooker and create easy meals with less effort and more flavor. You can visit her blog Sweet & Savory Meals for delicious dinner and dessert recipes that are husband and toddler approved!
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Richa is the cook, writer and photographer behind the blog My Food Story. She’s grown up in the kitchen alongside her mum and grandmothers and conversations in her family are always about the next meal. Her idea of cooking is something that’s fast, easy and mostly healthy because cooking should never be a chore!
She recently quit the big city life to move to a small beach town with her husband and spends time hanging out with her two dogs, sunning by the beach and building a kitchen garden.
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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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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 JENN
Jenn is the blogger and hungry hungry hippo behind the food blog Peas and Crayons. Her recipes are all about making veggies fun and delicious! Easy eats range from light and healthy to excitingly indulgent. There’s something for everyone!
This Boston-born, Florida-raised military mama currently lives in sunny Pensacola, Florida. She follows her pilot wherever his career may take them with their feisty four year old in tow. She loves creating recipes and dreaming up new ways to make veggies taste great and totally crave-worthy!
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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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