About Sauce Day NJ

We're not a business. We're just a family in New Jersey that loves keeping our Italian-American Sauce Day tradition alive.

What started as sharing photos with friends has grown into a community of thousands of people who are preserving old family recipes, creating new traditions, and gathering around the table one jar at a time.

Everything we share comes from our own experience making hundreds of jars of sauce each year. We aren't professional chefs or food scientists. We're simply sharing what has worked for our family in hopes that it helps yours.

What's Available?

Our FREE Sauce Day Starter Kit is designed to help you get started. Inside you'll find an introduction to Sauce Day, planning tips, checklists, space to record your own family recipe, and pages to document your tradition as it grows.

If you're ready to make sauce yourself, our complete Sauce Day Guide (minimum suggested donation $5) goes much deeper. It includes:

Our family's complete marinara recipe

Step-by-step instructions from start to finish

Equipment recommendations with links

Shopping lists and planning timelines

Canning workflow and organization tips

Lessons we've learned after years of Sauce Day

The Starter Kit helps you begin. The Full Guide helps you make Sauce Day with confidence.

Every purchase of the Full Guide helps us continue creating free resources, answering questions, testing equipment, and sharing our family's tradition with this amazing community. Thank you for supporting what we do.

Most of all, thank you for being here. We're honored to share a little piece of our family's Sauce Day with yours.

What Our Community Is Saying

"I've been waiting for your recipe! I missed it last year. I downloaded the prep plan then paid you $10 because it's amazing! Y'all did a fantastic job on your presentation. God bless you!"

— Anonymous (Originally from Pittsburgh, PA; now Texas)

"Can’t wait and I ordered a machine."

— Kay Clark

"Sauce Day is AMAZING!!!! Keep it going, please!"

— TJ Lindroos

"I love your posts! I wish I could talk my family into a Sauce Day."

— Denise Wertz

"Such a beautiful tradition!"

— Jennifer

"Amazing set up and tradition."

— Mikep412

"Love your site!"

— @eliseiscookingwithlove

Sauce Day NJ: A Guide from Our Family to Yours