Grace Catering Company

It’s pumpkin cinnamon season!!!!!!! We’re so excited to bring back our fall favorite- pumpkin cinnamon muffins! We have limited amounts available today, so grab some quick before they’re gone!

We give you lots of reasons to L💗VE Grace Catering Company! Here’s a big one: We keep you stocked with SCOTCHEROOS {fan favorite!} and lots of other delicious treats to satisfy your sweet tooth!!

💕Mariah 💗 Landon’s big day💕
It’s hard to believe it’s already been two months! It’s always a special honor to be a part of a wedding day, but it’s extra, extra special when it’s your daughter’s wedding!! We were blessed to celebrate the perfect day surrounded by amazing family and friends. The Grace team and some of our family did a wonderful job taking over so I could enjoy being mother-of-the-bride. We loved working with Michelle and her team at Venue Chisca, who did a superb job bringing Mariah’s vision to life! We have Addison Laine photography to thank for the gorgeous pictures.😍 Enjoy this little peek!


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The big week is here, so we’ll be closing at 12:30 pm this Friday for the wedding of Landon and Mariah! We’re so excited to celebrate with them!!💗

Fun facts about our Mac and Cheese:
🧀We use almost 24 pounds of cheese in every batch
🧀We use 5 different kinds of cheese
🧀 We use 10 pounds of cavatappi pasta per batch
🧀We cook it in a 15 gallon skillet

We love cooking in bulk so you don’t have to cook! We’re SUPER stocked for your Memorial Day weekend food needs!

🫐🍓🍒We also have berry cheesecake squares, peach pepper spread, and we’ll have a few pans of cinnamon rolls coming out of the oven soon— but these never last long {first come first served}

Sweeten your Friday! We have berry cheesecake squares and Texas cake today! 😋 We also have lots of good meal options in stock for your weekend!

Need a little sunshine today? Our lemon poppy seed cookies will brighten your day! 🍋☀️ Here through the end of April!

We love to see all the ways you bless the lives of others with our Grace to Go meals! This sweet lady came prepared to stock up her daughter’s freezer in preparation for the arrival of her first baby! 💗💙 She left with her wagon filled with deliciousness for the weeks ahead!

We are open regular hours today 10-5:30.

We encourage you all to take some time to pause this weekend and reflect on the amazing gift of Jesus and the great sacrifice He made to redeem us! ✝️

We have Easter treats available for you! Boxes of our delectable, pastel iced sugar cookies, bags of sweet and salty party mix, dinner rolls, cinnamon and caramel rolls, and our popular peach pepper spread are all available while supplies last! Our fridge and freezer are super well-stocked with lots of fan favorites as well! Hop on in and stock up!

Our creamy egg salad is back by popular demand this week!! It makes a great, protein-packed, grab and go lunch!

This is our last week for soups, so come grab them before they’re gone!

🌷🌼🌷Spring has officially sprung, so our soups will be going away soon! Today’s soup is our hearty chili. Grab a piece of our buttery cornbread for a sweet side— mmm! Also enjoy 20% off all frozen soups, while supplies last. 🌸🌼🌺

Pumpkin cinnamon muffins are making one last comeback! Get them before they’re gone— they won’t be back till Fall! We’re also well-stocked with a lot of favorites. Check out our weekly menu on our website gracecateringcompany.com to see what we’ve been cooking this week.

Ready for a change of pace? Today we have our southwest salad with a delicious black bean and corn topping, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, corn tortilla strips and our avocado lime ranch dressing. We also have our vegetable soup today and a variety of sandwiches, including our southwest wrap for great grab and go lunch options!

Come stock up on meals before the next winter weather yuck hits! Our fridge and freezer are stocked with LOTS of favorite options for you.

You can always check out our menu on our website gracecateringcompany.com to see what we’re cooking each day.

WOW!! What a week!! Thanks to all of you, our loyal customers, we pretty much got wiped clean today! This was literally all we had left in our freezer at the end of the day!

What a year 2023 has been!! Thank you all for your wonderful support and kindness! We love cooking for you, chatting with you, and hearing snippets of your lives! We’ve shared a lot of laughter with you, and some of you have shared stories that have moved us to tears. We feel privileged when you share prayer requests with us, and we can lift you up in prayer before our good God!

I hope to share more of our customer connections with you in 2024. Feel free to comment below or DM me if you have any special favorites or Grace Catering Co stories you’d like to share.

Thank you for blessing us! We wish you all a wonderful Christmas filled with joy and thankfulness for the truly amazing GIFT that was sent to us on that Holy Night so many years ago! 🌟

We look forward to serving you again in 2024! Please note that we are closed until January 3rd. 💗

We are so honored!! The 4th grade teachers at Brimfield dressed up as Grace girls for Halloween today, and they even passed out cookies! 😂💗 This gave all of us “real” Grace girls a good laugh! Thanks for letting us share, ladies, and for making Grace a part of your lives!!

Shout out to Ruth L, aka Foofie, who, every Tuesday, faithfully and cheerfully stands over the hot skillet and cooks up all of our ground beef and sausage for the week! It’s no small task— she typically cooks up between 80-120 pounds each week!! We’re so blessed to have her on the Grace team!! 😊💗

Who else thinks fall foods are the best foods?! 🍁🍃🍂🍁

{BIG announcement!} Our soups are back!!! Today’s featured soup is our much-loved cheeseburger soup— total comfort in a bowl! Today we also bring back our autumn salad with apples, craisins, mandarin oranges, cucumbers, red onions and glazed pecans on a bed of mixed greens with our house raspberry poppyseed dressing. With or without chicken strips, this is a delicious meal or makes a great side to go with your soup!

Look what’s back!!! PUMPKIN CINNAMON MUFFINS!!! These sweet little morsels don’t last long, so grab yours quickly!

All things fall will be heading your way soon! We’ve been asked a lot about whether our soups are back. They will make their grand debut the first week of October. 🍁🍂🍁

Grandma’s spaghetti is a favorite and it’s in stock right now, along with LOTS of other great options! Our fridge and freezer are both full of deliciousness for you to stock your home fridge this weekend OR if you’re spending the weekend at the lake or heading out on vacation, load up a cooler with meals from here! It will save you time and money, which we all agree is a big win! 🏆

Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies— July’s cookie of the month!! 🫐💙

There’s nothing like a plump juicy blueberry to give off all the good July vibes! We had fun this week experimenting with different blueberry cookies. The very clear winner was the blueberry cheesecake one. It’s a cakey cookie with cream cheese swirled in and studded with blueberries. Come give it a try, and let us know what you think. 💙

We’re also super stocked with lots of good things right now:
Chicken Alfredo pasta
Cheeseburger sliders
Pizza meat loaves
Pulled pork— BBQ or maple
Goulash
White lasagna
Mexican lasagna
Chicken fajitas
Roasted veggies
Sweet and Sour chicken breasts
Beef stroganoff
Biscuits & gravy casserole
Calico baked beans
Party potatoes
Fruity baked oatmeal
Sausage strata
Breakfast burritos
+ more good things in our freezer!

We always have great grab and go lunch options for you— our specialty sandwiches, salads, and quinoa bowls are available every day as well as our irresistible cookies and bars!

We recently added bistro tables to our front patio, so it makes a great lunch spot on nice days. It also makes a great stopping off point if you’re spending a day on the Rock Island Trail since we’re conveniently located right by the Alta trailhead.

We’ve been cooking up a storm— not a rainstorm, unfortunately; we haven’t figured out how to do that. 🌧️But our fridge and freezer are full of all kinds of great things and customer favorites that we made so you don’t have to! I’m so thankful to have this fantastic team cooking beside me! 💗

Today I want to tell you about Pleasant Hope Academy in Kenya. Ruth, who wears many hats at Grace Catering Company, including manager and maker of our delicious pot pies, has a very special spot in her heart for this place. PHA was founded by a big-hearted woman, Margaret, who had a calling to quit her public school teaching job to educate children living in her village who couldn’t afford to attend school. She lived in Peoria for seven years, during which time she met Ruth. Since 2015, Ruth and her husband have been traveling to Kenya yearly to help with management and projects at PHA. Ruth has carried her passion for food to PHA but as you can see in the photos, the kitchen conditions are not remotely close to those of the Grace Catering kitchen. There are plans at some point to construct a new kitchen, but for now, they continue to prepare meals for 190 children plus staff here. Until then, Ruth is trying to come up with ways to make small improvements. There is a need for a sink and sanitary prep counter, stove and utensils/supplies.

As a fun little side fact, Margaret worked in our Grace Catering kitchen while she was spending some extended time in the USA. We all grew to love her, her warm heart, and her beautiful Kenyan accent!

In honor of Ruth’s birthday, and out of our love for Margaret as well, we are going to have a jar on our front counter for those of you who might like to donate some loose change to this worthy cause. We are also donating 20% of all sales tomorrow (Wednesday, May 31st) to help supply the PHA kitchen. 💗

Has this ever felt too true in your life?! Grace Catering Company to the rescue!! We’ve taken the hard part out of it for you. I remember standing in front of the fridge way too many nights when my kids were all young and at home, just hoping something delicious would miraculously jump out at me. That’s pretty much how it works here at GCC. We make all the deliciousness and all you need to do is stand at our fridge door and pick something out! 💗🎈🎉

We are SUPER stocked right now! Here’s what’s in our fridge, just waiting to be your next dinner:
Chicken tetrazzini
Chicken rice burritos
Lasagna
Blueberry oatmeal cups
Taco pie
Chicken deluxe casserole
Cheesy beef enchiladas
Cowboy grub
Open-faced breakfast sandwiches
Cavatini
BBQ bacon chicken
Mac and cheese
Chili cornbread casserole
Chicken Parmesan
Chicken pot pie
BBQ pork chops
Cheddar+ bacon-wrapped cheddar meat loaves
+ more options in our freezer

MAY’S COOKIE OF THE MONTH !!
Strawberry Shortcake Cookies 🍓🍰🍪 !!!!

These little gems are so delicious—studded with fresh strawberries, topped with a strawberry cream cheese frosting and finished off with strawberry and shortcake crumbs. You’ll get all the fresh strawberry vibes from these! 🍓😍

Thank you all for loving our cinnamon and caramel rolls so much!! We are completely sold out. 😪 Those things have a way of flying out the door. 🦋

If you still have a sweet tooth, we think our cookies rate right up there with our cinnamon rolls. They don’t have that same brunch feel, but we’ve been known to eat them for breakfast. 🤫

It’s almost Easter ✝️, and we are making it easy for you! We have fresh cinnamon or caramel rolls, dinner rolls with cinnamon honey butter, brunch options, ham loaves, roasted veggies, BBQ meat loaves, creamy garlic chicken breasts, loaded mashed potatoes, shepherds pie and more.

Tomorrow we will have our scrumptious, herb-buttered beef tenderloins available in our fridge. These will make any dinner feel extra special!

We also have a fresh batch of our delicious, pastel-colored frosted sugar cookies, which make a great tuck-in for Easter baskets! 🐣✝️

We’re excited to tell you about our new {Cookie of the Month} feature! March is the month of all things mint, so we’re jumping on the bandwagon with our Mint Frosted Brownie cookies as our very first cookie of the month.

I’ll admit, chocolate cookies are something I’ve never really loved (something from my childhood…), but I was on the quest to find a rich and FUDGY chocolate cookie with a texture that was moist, but not too cakey. After a couple recipe fails, I stumbled upon these cookies, and they perfectly checked every single box! ✅ (Thank goodness, because we were all getting tired of sampling chocolate cookies 😄) We top them with our mint cream frosting, with just the right amount of mint to pair with the chocolate without overpowering it.

Thanks, Lacey, for another great job baking another fantastic batch of cookies today! {Side note— Lacey is a full-time nurse, who blesses us with her presence one day a week at Grace Catering Co, as part of our team, and we’re so glad she does! She’s a great baker and cook, and she keeps us laughing, which is always a good thing!)

Come grab a mint brownie cookie before March is over and they’re gone till next year, and comment below if you’ve tried one. We always love your feedback!