We asked some of our favorite food bloggers to share with us their 5 Favorite Food Products of 2008 and we're bringing them to you all December long.

Andrea from Bella Eats (and Runs) is a twenty-something landscape designer living in Charlottesville, VA. She and her husband strive to live as sustainable a life as possible. Her blog is like a food diary that gives us insight into what she eats daily. She shares her discoveries of food products that are both healthful and nutritionally sound, and you get to see how they can be incorporated into delicious meals. Her 5 faves from 2008 are below (click the product name to read her review & recipes on her blog):

1. Fruit Sweet by Wax Orchards. Great natural sweetener for baking. I used it in my pumpkin cranberry bread.

2. Brown Rice Pasta by Tinkyada. Closest whole grain pasta to semolina that I can find...great silky texture. Its the only pasta I buy anymore.

3. Oikos Organic Greek Yogurt (honey flavor). I can't live without it. Need I say more?

4. Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Seasoning Blends. We have every flavor. They are amazing, but the blackened redfish, poultry magic and veggie magic are our faves.

5. Clif Z-Bar (Chocolate chip flavor). These have quickly become a staple in my pantry. They are a fabulous pre-workout snack and taste just like chocolate chip cookies ... I hear if you heat them up they taste like they just came out of the oven!

Check out her About Andrea and Running Story pages to learn more about her amazing and her relationship with food and body issues.

More of my favorite foodies who contributed their 5 favorite food product finds of 2008:
* Andrea from BellaEats.
* Tina from Carrots 'N' Cake.
* Sheila from LiveWell360.
* Kath from Kath Eats Real Food.
* Roni from Roni's Weigh.
* Gina from Fitnessista.
* Jenna from EatLiveRun
* Andrea and Erin from Care to Eat.
* Marvo from The Impulsive Buy.
* Jenn and Erin from Fit Bottomed Girls.