Meet My Blog Friends
One of the best perks of being a blogger is that you get to make friends with other bloggers along the way. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a few of my friends from the blogosphere – a couple whom I’ve met in person, a couple whom I have not yet met in real life. A couple are NuVal friends, a couple are not. But they all have blogs that I love to read. And if you like your daily dose of A Better Bag of Groceries, you might like to click on over to visit these sites too.
First, Meet Kalli. 
She is the blogger behind Fit and Forty Something. Long-time readers of ABBG may remember reading about Kalli’s Green Monster Shakes here. I love to get my daily dose of Kalli, especially since I injured my back in March. I haven’t written much about my annoying back injury here on the blog because I don’t think you all come here to hear about my aches & pains, but reading Kalli really helped me through a difficult time. She has had a hip injury from running and she’s been a few steps ahead of me in the healing process. It was just what I needed to keep my spirits up as I cautiously proceeded back into my running, spinning and Pilates. Kalli lives in California, so I have not met her in person. But I feel like I know her – and her hunky husband, and their cute dog, and their beautiful new kitchen, etc. Most recently, Kalli did a Trade-Up post, inspired by my Trade-Up Tuesday theme that she sees here every week.
Meet Andrea
Andrea (pronounced Ahhn-drea) is someone whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many times. She is one of the dietitians for Big Ysupermarkets and she does a whole lotta stuff for Big Y and for NuVal, including blogging at MassLive. Andrea is a new mom to a 15-month-old boy. B.C. (Before Children) she used to log a lot of time at the gym and spend time kayaking, but now she keeps fit at home with her exercise bike, Pilates DVDs, and walking with her husband and son after dinner. As a blogger, Andrea is incredibly talented at taking her knowledge as a dietitian and making it easy for us non-dietitians to understand. Most recently, she wroteabout score changes at NuVal. We’re seeing many of them lately as manufacturers reformulate their products and she did a great job of explaining why.
Meet Stephanie
Stephanie is also a registered dietitian. She works for Festival Foods, a 14-store supermarket chain in Wisconsin. I have been very lucky to meet Stephanie on several occasions and she is just a doll. She is also super-smart. Even though she’s young and she’s only been in the supermarket business less than two years, I have seen her sit around a conference table with senior executives and simply wow them. Since Festival is a small company, she wears many, many hat in her job. She’s on TV, out in the community, training store employees, and yes, she writes not one, but two blogs: one for Festival Foods and another for the Green Bay Press Gazette. And oh yeah, she’s planning her wedding for June 2012. Won’t she make a beautiful bride?
Meet Tina
Of course you all know Tina! With 1.3 million pageviews per month(!) on her award-winning Carrots N Cake blog, who doesn’t know Tina? I remember once when I was working part-time for NuVal, I was at the gym, running on the treadmill on a Friday morning, watching Rachel Ray, and Tina’s picture came up on the television screen. Yes, I work with a big-time blogger. But the amazing thing is – in person – she is very quiet and down-to-earth. If you met her, you would never guess that just the day before, she was cooking with Kelly Ripa. Seriously.
Tina’s blog is addictive. I love to see what she is up to – both on CNCand her NuVal blog, Trading Up Downtown. And working alongside her – it is amazing to see how fast she blogs. She is a speed demon. I am humbled.
Meet Robin
Food, food, food. I work for a food scoring company. I write a food blog. I feed my plan for, cook, and feed my family three meals a day. Let’s just say that now and then I need a non-food coffee break. You know what I’m sayin? Sometimes I need to read about – and chat about – something other than food! And that’s where my friend Robin comes in. She is also known as Miss Conduct, the etiquette columnist for the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine. I have been in awe since her ver first column appeared. Soon after, she started her blog and we’ve become Internet friends. We came close to meeting in person once. She invited me to be her guest at a function. I was so excited! But we had plans to go to Storyland in New Hampshire – so alas, we have not met. My husband, who works in the city, did attend her book-signing for me, so he has met my Blog Idol. Someday! In any event, if you are looking for wit, intelligence and a good laugh, check out Miss Conduct.
Question of the Day
What are some of your favorite blogs – other than ABBG, of course 
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