Welcome to Goodness Gracious
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Goodness Gracious is a family business, producing delicious, stylish and elegant home-made meals using farm fresh ingredients since 2009. Each recipe has been carefully hand crafted and tested by our owner chef, and 'preservatives' and 'additives' just do not feature in our food - just superb, quality ingredients.
*NEW!* Specials Collection
All meals in this new collection are 10% off the usual price.
Hurry though, we change up the dishes frequently, depending on stock levels. Your favourite GG meal might be on special today, but not tomorrow....
The blast freezing effect
Uniquely and importantly, we blast freeze our freshly cooked dishes - in a special blast freezer - freezing the food 4-5 times quicker than in a normal home freezer which locks in all the goodness, colour and flavour. Scroll down to read more...
Our meals come in containers that are suitable for the oven, airfryer and/or microwave, with simple cooking instructions and great side dish suggestions.
We guarantee our food will not fail to impress, and you will feel proud to serve Goodness Gracious meals to anyone sitting at your table.
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ONLINE ORDERS FOR CAPE TOWN, JHB, PTA AND SURROUNDS NOW OPEN.
What do our customers think?...
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Best Sellers
Chicken, Leek and Mushroom Phyllo Pie
Butter Chicken
Traditional Beef Lasagne
Fragrant Thai Chicken Curry
What is 'blast freezing'?
A Blast Freezer freezes fresh or partly cooked food much faster than an ordinary home freezer, locking in the key qualities and nutrients of the food. So that after defrosting, the food appears like it was never frozen, and the taste, texture, colour and overall look are uncompromised.
Let's get technical...
When you freeze food (or anything else for that matter) the water inside crystallises into ice. The longer the freezing process takes, the larger the ice crystals. In a Blast freezer, the temp of the food is lowered to -20 degrees celsius in just 4 hours, as opposed to taking 10-72 hours in a normal freezer.
Rapid freezing causes the crystals formed to be very small, which does less damage and preserves food at a higher quality.
Aside from the integrity, quality and taste of the food, blast freezing also offers a health and safety benefit in that extreme cold slows down the growth of bacteria so that there is a greatly reduced risk of contamination.
Finally, a blast freezer allows you to put the food into it when freshly cooked and still hot (with a normal freezer, you need to cool it down first) and this alleviates any sourness that may develop.
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About Us
Goodness Gracious was established in 2009, and has evolved into a much loved food brand amongst our loyal customers, growing humbly from our original roots in the Cape Winelands. Today, the increasing demand for our great tasting meals has spurred us on to become ever more innovative, offering the online experience to our Johannesburg and Pretoria markets.
Only the highest quality ingredients and standards go into our meal preparation.
Our uniqueness lies in our culture and our values – we care about what we put into our recipes, making sure every ingredient matters. This uncompromised attention to detail and food safety, ensures that we are not just another food brand.
If you haven’t yet tried us, browse the site and you’ll find ratings from our customers on many of the dishes; don’t take our word for it, read what they have to say!
Feel free to contact us with your thoughts or any ideas - we’d love to hear from you. We look forward to including you in our exciting food journey.