A HUSBAND-and-wife team could have found the recipe for success with a new mail-order food company offering some of South Africa's most well-known dishes.
Jana and Shalk Meyer set up the South African Food Company in June after being unable to find pre-prepared meals from their home country in the UK.
The idea came when Jana was craving South African food while pregnant with her first child, Byon, four and a half years ago.
Now the number of customers after dishes like Durban curry or bobotie is growing.
Just click on the website and a pre-packed frozen meal is couriered anywhere in the UK.
The couple, of Mount Crescent, Warley, are now ready to distribute to South African shops and other outlets such as Budgens.
Pretoria-born Jana, 36, said: "People brought food around when I was having Byon, but what I really wanted was a bobotie.
"I wanted to buy ready-made South African food from the shelf. You can buy things like biltong here, but you could not buy frozen meals anywhere and so we decided to do it ourselves."
Jana met her South African-born husband, also 36, in London while on a gap year in 2000.
She then trained as a teacher in Barking and later bought an after school tuition franchise.
It was after having her daughter Cariney that Jana decided to begin her newest enterprise.
"We are really excited about it," she said.
"It's been a long journey, but now we are actually starting to sell our product, it is fantastic."
Visit www.southafricanfoodcompany.co.uk for more details.
