Show your New Jersey pride with these 12 gift ideas for food lovers.

Gifts that can be savored and remembered with love become even sweeter as so many of our friends and family ask us to throw away “stuff” and those gifts are made in the Garden State. It gets even sweeter.

So, if you’re going through your list over and over again, be sure to consider these holiday gift ideas worthy of life’s most discerning food lover.

Barbecue Buddha Sauce and Rub

It’s been almost five years since Ray Sheehan turned his lifelong culinary experience into a business. His own BBQ is his line of sauces and spices his love. Today, BBQ Buddha products can be found in dozens of specialty markets and butcher shops between Bergen and Atlantic counties.

Sheehan’s sauces Memphis Mop and Kansas City have won top honors at major competitions, including second place at this year’s American Royal World Series of Barbecue Sauce Contest.