Last month I was able to visit the J.M. Smucker Company headquarters in Ohio. It was an absolutely amazing experience and I left Ohio feeling like I was part of the Smucker family.
Not only did I spend two days learning how to make pies, ice cream, cookies, coffee, and various other goodies, I also was able to meet several members of the Smucker family. From the CEO to the folks in the test kitchen every single person I met represented the family values held so dearly by the founder Jerome Smucker.
Over the next several days I’ll be sharing with you baking tips, recipes, and even an ice cream tutorial video. But before I share tips I wanted to share with you one of my favorite parts of the trip.
The Smucker’s Store
If you are ever near Orrville, Ohio you must visit the Smucker’s Store, especially during the Christmas season. It is beautifully decorated and you can find all sorts of great Smucker’s products and gifts.
My favorite part of the store was the Christmas trees. Each tree was decorated for a different brand.
The Jelly Tree
The Peanut Butter Tree
The Pancake Tree
If you can’t get to Orrville, Ohio that’s okay too! I’ve got an awesome Smucker’s Gift Basket to give away to one reader.
Around the Family Table with Smucker’s Gift Basket
- Crisco Baking Sticks- Butter
- Crisco Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Dunkin’ Seasonal- Mocha Mint
- Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk- New Pop-top lid
- Folgers Small Red Can
- Folgers Stick Pack
- Hungry Jack Easy Pack Pancake Mix- Funfetti
- Hungry Jack Easy Pack Pancake Mix- Wildberry
- Jif Natural Peanut Butter- 18 oz.
- Jif-To-Go Creamy- 3/pk
- Martha White Blueberry Muffin Mix
- Millstone K-Cup- Hazlenut
- Natural Peanut Butter Stirrer
- Pillsbury Easy Frost- Cream Cheese
- Pillsbury Pumpkin Cookie Mix
- Smucker’s Hot Caramel Topping
- Smucker’s Natural Creamy Peanut Butter
- Smucker’s Orange Marmalade
- Smucker’s Orchard’s Finest- Strawberry
- Uncrustables Sandwich Keeper
- Uncrustables VIP Coupons (2)
- White Lily All-Purpose Flour
To enter to win this awesome Around the Family Table gift basket leave a comment telling me your favorite jelly/ jam/ or preserve. Guess what…. I don’t like jelly at all- but I love strawberry preserves! Go figure! Giveaway ends December 8, 2011.
I love strawberry preserves! If I won this I would give it to the family in need that we are sponsoring for Christmas.
I love blackberry jam! It is kind of a canning process, but tastes wonderful. I love strawberry preserves and spreadable fruit. Thanks for the chance to win! I live in Lexington, Ohio and have never visited Smuckers. Must do this!
My fav has to be the blackberry preserves from Silver Dollar City. Love that stuff!
Raspberry preserves. With peanut butter. On whole wheat toast!
Awesome giveaway! I love allllll jelly/jams/preserves!! My most favorite would have to be orange marmalade though!
apple jelly is my favorite
What a fun giveaway!
I think my favorite preserves would be a toss up between sour cherry and apricot…
I prefer strawberry preserves but jam would be my second choice:) Thanks for the great giveaway!
My favorite jam is blueberry.
We love jams and preserves! What a wonderful give away!
Mixed berry preserves are so yum!
Mmmmm, apple butter! Is that a jam?
I love Smuckers Strawberry Reduced Sugar Fruit Spread-my favorite!
definitely strawberry preserves!
I love blueberry natural style without suger added.
Love strawberry jam on top of peanut butter on fresh toast. Yum!!
so hard to pick just one, but I do love apple butter!
I love cranberry anything!
I just started eating jelly this year….Never ate it before.
toss up between strawberry and grape smuckers all the way love their jams etc ….
I like Strawberry preserves
My favorite jelly is Apricot Jalepeno that I buy from the farmer’s market here in town. Grape jelly is a house favorite though. It is one of the few items my husband will absolutely not go without.
My fab is plain ol grape jelly
I LOVE Grape Jelly and Strawberry Preserves. The Grape on my sandwiches the Strawberry on toast and pancakes!!
My favorite is grape jelly.
I love blackberry jam, so yummy!
Mom’s homemade Strawberry Preserves! Sorry Smucker’s you have to admit nothing is better than Momma’s home cookin’.
My fav. is strawberry jelly, my friend made me last year, and i cant stand strawberries. But I could eat it with a spoon. Yummy!!!
my sauce for cocktail franks is so tasty with the secret ingredient…all fruit grape jelly! Goes over very well at the holidays.
I love, love, love raspberry preserves. On toast. With tea. Mmmmm…
I LOVE red raspberry preserves!! My mom always had it in the fridge growing up. My favorite putting it with butter on a hot biscuit fresh out of the oven…yum!
Smucker’s Raspberries!!
my dad always gets the sugar free bc he has diabetes, and it taste sooooooo good! :0)
Love the strawberry preserves! YUM! Sounds like a fun trip!
We love strawberry in our house, but blueberry is my personal favorite!
Strawberry Preserves, but when I was little my grandma always had a jar of Orange Marmalade which was always a special treat for me.
Tough choices……have to go with raspberry jam. Takes me back to my childhood days of of picking sun warmed raspberries right from the bushes
I love peach jam and strawberry, oh and raspberry.
strawberry jam.
My favorite all time was Smucker’s apple cinnamon which is no longer made. One christmas after it was taken off the market. They did a special and I bought a whole case for my mom and I. I would live for them to ring it back as a temporary special.
Strawberry is my family’s favorite