EXHIBIT 99.2


                   STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE
                OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER REGARDING
                FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT
                                     FILINGS

I, James A. Lawrence, state and attest that:

      (1)   To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered
            reports of General Mills, Inc. and, except as corrected or
            supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

            *  no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material
               fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
               the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials,
               as of the date on which it was filed); and

            *  no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to
               make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
               circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
               the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
               report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
               on which it was filed).

      (2)   I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's
            audit committee.

      (3)   In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
            before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

            *  Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended May 26, 2002 of
               General Mills, Inc.;

            *  all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
               definitive proxy materials of General Mills, Inc. filed with the
               Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified
               above; and

            *  any amendments to any of the foregoing.


/s/ James A. Lawrence                       Subscribed and sworn to
- ----------------------------------          before me this 14th day of
James A. Lawrence                           August, 2002.
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
General Mills, Inc.
August 14, 2002                             /s/ Trevor V. Gunderson
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                                                   Notary Public

                                            My Commission Expires:

                                            January 31, 2005
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