General Mills: Insight Into a Wonderful Company

I am sure some of you have already read my Day 1 of the 2 day General Mills Table Talk Event.  In case you haven’t you can read all about it in this post.  General Mills brought about 25  bloggers to meet with execs, get to know them and spend a day inside General Mills.   Everything from talking with the company to cooking in the Betty Crocker kitchens was part of the wonderful experience we had with this amazing company.

Upon entering the General Mills headquarters we got to see a bit of the General Mills History, it was wonderful to see boxes and charachters of the past to the present.  Everything from Green Giant to Betty Crocker and Bisquick to Wheaties was along what I will refer to as “History Row”.  Reading facts and seeing how things have come along since the start of General Mills was awesome, it’s wonderful to see the progression of products.  Here are a few pictures of General Mills “History Row”

I think my favorite part had to be the Betty’s:

After our history lesson, we headed down stairs to the meeting room where General Mills generously provided us with breakfast (and later samples, lunch, samples and more samples).  It was great.  One thing I noted right off was the huge white paper with an amazing artist drawing on it.  I learned that she would be taking notes, quotes and using them on these papers to do some visual learning for those who may tend to space out when the power points are pulled out.  It was an amazing addition to an already great experience.  The finished Visual Learning board was amazing and the finished product was beautiful:

The day started with some learning about General Mills, new products and future ideas.  It was such an informative time and I learned so much as well as got to give input into future things, current workings and what could be tweaked a bit.  Some of the things we learned during the day spent with General Mills:

• Betty Crocker was actually born from a Saturday Evening Post
• There was 27 years of the Betty Crocker radio show
• Green Giant was founded in 1903 in Minnesota
• Green Giant is the #3 ad icon in the 20th century
• There are 28 billion dollar in vegetable sales each year, 77% of that is fresh veggies, 12 % canned and 11% frozen.

After learning much more about the company (this post would be ages long if I listed everything) all the attendees broke into teams to head into the Betty Crocker Kitchens.  We each had a recipe to cook.  It was a once in a lifetime experience, how many can say they got to cook in THE Betty Crocker Kitchen.   After all the groups had finished the recipe they had we headed over to the presentation area to share our recipes and thoughts.  The food was delicious.  My team consisted of Mandy from Mommy Mandy, Nicole from Frugal is Fab, Melanie from My Little Patch of Sunshine, and of course yours truly here.  We had to prepare the Oven-Fried Chicken Tenders and not to toot our horn, they were FABULOUS!  Here are  a few pictures of our experience:

After our wonderful experience of cooking and tasting all the other recipes.  We headed back in for lunch and a bit more talk on different areas such as the Betty Crocker website, whether Green Giant should tweet or not, the importance social media plays with companies and how we (the bloggers) are a big part of them moving forward.  As I stated earlier this visit was wonderful and informative and gave us a great insight into a company that most americans use products from on a daily basis.

As I mentioned we got to sample some of the General Mills products through our visit.  With veggies and smoothies, soup and oriental the day left me with a belly full of wonderful food.  A few of my favorites were the Veggie Steamers Garden Vegetable Medley, Just for One Corn and Peas in Basil Sauce, Wanchai Ferry Orange Chicken and Yoplait Triple Berry Smoothie.  Check out General Mills Brand Page for all the brands of product they carry as well as nutrition information on my favorites.

All in all this trip was very informative, tasty and a wonderful time to get to know the company and the people behind the company.  I have always loved General Mills and this trip and working with them has sealed what a great company they are in my mind.

General Mills brings fun, health and taste to the dinner table and bring out the Betty Crocker in all of us.

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Toni Patton

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Hi! I'm Toni. I am a happily married, christian, momma of 3 living on Florida's sunny Gulf Coast. I am a lifestyle blogger and Seint Arist. I started blogging when my last child was born as a way to share my love of all things travel, cooking, beauty, recipes, and more. Now pull up a chair, grab a glass of sweet tea and let's get to know each other. I truly hope you enjoy getting A Daily Dose of Toni!

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