17 Spicy Gift Ideas Under $100 [Seeds, Snacks, Sauces, & More]

17 Spicy Gift Ideas Under $100 [Seeds, Snacks, Sauces, & More]

Happy Holidays? More like Happy Hot-i-days! At Pepper Joe’s, we take pride in our hot pepper seeds, offering new seed varieties and live pepper plants every year, and providing the most flavorful spicy snacks and sauces. With the holidays coming soon, we have you covered with 17 spicy gift ideas that are under $100, whether they are a spicy food enthusiast or a hot pepper grower.

P.S. order by December 19th to get your gifts delivered to your doorstep before Christmas Day!   

1. World’s Hottest Pepper Cheese Collection

Pepper Joe's spicy cheese on fries, chili, burgers, and mac and cheese

One of our best-selling products – our spicy cheese will take grilled cheese sandwiches and burgers to the next level. The bundle includes Carolina Reaper Cheddar Cheese, Ghost Pepper Monterey Jack Cheese, and Scorpion Cheddar Cheese, and they’re all made with world-famous Wisconsin Cheese and super hot pepper flakes to give your taste buds an incredible balance of cool creaminess with piercing heat that’ll make your throat sweat.  

Bonus: throw in Ghost Pepper Cheese Curds for a delightful cheese fries experience.

2. Carolina Reaper Summer Sausage & Snack Sticks AND Jalapeno Summer Sausage & Snack Sticks

reaper snack sticks with a carolina reaper pepper

Feelin' snacky? You can’t go wrong with spicy summer sausage and snack sticks. They’re made with fresh Midwestern ingredients and bold, flavorful spices to keep the snacky person’s belly happy during the next camping trip, road trip, or weekend get together. Turn up the heat with fiery Reaper summer sausages and Reaper snack sticks, or take a walk to the mild side with delicious Jalapeno summer sausages and Jalapeno snack sticks

3. Beef Jerky Gift Pack

pepper joe's holding spicy beef jerky and bacon jerky
If you know a die-hard foodie, you cannot go wrong with our premium, high-quality spicy beef jerky and bacon jerky. The Beef Jerky Gift Pack comes in a collection of sweet and spicy beef jerky that will get their taste buds tingling. The gift pack includes Carolina Reaper Bacon Jerky, Carolina Reaper Beef Jerky, Mango Habanero Beef Jerky, Sweet Cayenne Uncured Candied Bacon Jerky, and Jalapeno Beef Jerky. Impress the heat lover in your life with this set of the hottest beef jerky.

4. Tour of Heat Hot Sauce 

pepper joe's carolina reaper hot sauce, ghost pepper hot sauce, and scorpion hot sauce

Have a friend or relative who’s really into hot sauces? Have them take the tour of heat with our three hottest hot sauces - the Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce, Scorpion Pepper Hot Sauce, and Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce. Whether they’ll go straight for the World’s Hottest Carolina Reaper or start with the Ghost and climb their way up to the heat ladder, these premium sauces will take their meals to new heights.  

Bonus: we carry a lot more hot sauces for the hot sauce aficionado, including Pineapple Reaper Hot Sauce, Blueberry Reaper Hot Sauce, Mango Scotch Bonnet Hot Sauce, XXX Habanero Hot Sauce, and Jalapeno Hot Sauce.

5. Carolina Reaper Dessert Hot Sauce Bundle 

Know someone who is adventurous and enjoys exploring different hot sauce flavors? Our best-selling hot sauce duo, aka the Blueberry Reaper Hot Sauce and Pineapple Reaper Hot Sauce, will keep them coming back for more. The Carolina Reaper Desert 2-Pack is packed full of superhot chilies and delicious fruits that bring an unforgettable experience to anything you dab on.

These sweet Reaper hot sauces are a great addition to any snack and go well with a wide range of food and desserts like eggs, ice cream, waffles, oatmeal, cheesecake, pizza, burgers, grilled cheese sandwiches, and ramen. 

Fun Fact: The Blueberry Reaper Hot Sauce was featured in Fuego Box’s hot sauce monthly subscription in October 2020! 

6. Habanero Hot Sauce Collection 

pepper joe's habanero spicy hot sauce

Don’t surprise the hot sauce lover with just one hot sauce gift pack, surprise them with TWO hot sauce gift sets! The more sauce, the better.

We crafted sauces full of Habaneros because we love Habaneros, and they are dangerously delicious in hot sauces. The Habanero Hot Sauce Collection includes Hollering Habanero Hot SauceGarlic Habanero Hot SauceCarrot Habanero Hot SauceMango Habanero Hot SauceTropical Habanero Hot Sauce, and XXX Habanero Hot Sauce. Make sure to grab a set before they are gone! 

7. Raging Reaper Chocolate Bar

pepper joe's raging reaper chocolate bar posed for photoshoot

What’s a holiday without some -spicy- chocolate? Our Raging Reaper Chocolate Bar is the perfect stocking stuffer for the heat lover who also has a sweet tooth! We worked with a professional artisan chocolatier to create the highest quality; most delicious dark chocolate combined with Carolina Reaper peppers. What are you waiting for, satisfy that sweet tooth.

7. Sweet and Spicy Salsa 6-Pack

pepper joe's spicy salsa posed for photoshoot

Why only have one type of salsa when you can get SIX of them! If you’re looking for a salsa party pack to gift to that heat lover, the salsa 6-pack will be the new wildly flavorful, put-it-on-everything condiment pack. These spicy salsas aren’t just used for chips and dips - they’ll be great on everything from topping on your favorite food, using them as marinades, or to polish off the whole jars. 

Want only the superhot salsas or the mild ones? We offer them in packs – get the Super Hot Salsa 3-Pack to bring tears to their eyes, or the Mild Salsa 3-Pack so you can enjoy all the flavors our milder peppers will bring. 

8. Ghost Mustard and Ghost Ketchup 2-Pack

Are you an avid tailgater? Or into hosting BBQ parties? Ketchup and mustard don’t have to be boring anymore – they can be flavorful with a little kick! The Ghost Mustard and Ghost Ketchup 2-Pack is the perfect combo to deliver both flavors and tongue-tingling heat on burgers, hot dogs, fries, onion rings, and pretzels.   

Bonus: We’re having a BOGO on our Ghost Mustard to make the holidays merrier. For a limited time, get 2 for 1 on our Ghost Mustard so you and your friend or relative can enjoy them together!

9. Mash Puree Bundle

mash puree jars posed for a photoshoot

 

Making all the hot sauces, chilis, and salsas, but need some pepper mash? Use five of our hot pepper mashes as an ingredient base for hot sauces, to add to any delightful dish, or as a finishing sauce to your favorite food.

The collection includes Scotch Bonnet Mash Puree, Habanero Mash Puree, Ghost Pepper Mash Puree, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Mash Puree, and Carolina Reaper Mash Puree – the best hot pepper mashes for the one who needs pure daring heat on a daily basis.

 

BEST GARDENING GIFTS FOR THE HOT PEPPER GROWER

You don’t have to just gift spicy snacks and sauces, we also carry special gifts for gardeners to take their pepper game to the next level.

10. 2022 Superhot Pepper Seed Collection

 2022 new seeds in a seed collection

End their year with a big bang with our new seed releases for 2022! In this exclusive superhot pepper seed collection, the chilihead will get to grow 10 of our best-selling 2022 pepper seeds. The collection includes:

Gator Jigsaw Seeds, Primotalii Red Seeds, T-Rex Yellow Seeds, Big Mama Rainbow Mix Seeds, Mustard Ghost Seeds, Purple Reaper Seeds, Mojo Pumpkintail Seeds, Chocolate Gator Jigsaw Seeds, Devil's Brain Seeds,
and Chocolate Armageddon Seeds.

11. Tour of Heat Super Hot Seed Collection

Whether your friend or relative is a new grower or a seasoned pro, have the hot pepper lover grow three of the most popular super hot peppers in the world with the Tour of Heat Super Hot Seed Collection. They’ll experience a range of heat and flavor from all the fresh peppers they grow from these seeds, and can create their own hot sauce, powder, or any number of spicy recipes. The collection includes:

Ghost Pepper Pepper Seeds, Apocalypse Scorpion Pepper Seeds, and Carolina Reaper Seeds

12. Golden Pepper Seeds Collection

golden pepper seed collection seed label

Make 2023 their shining year with golden peppers that’s sure to make the gardener smile! These golden peppers from the Golden Pepper Seeds Collection are a bright and delicious mix of sweet and hot peppers that are sure to be a shining light of beauty in their garden or grow space. This collection includes seeds for 7 different varieties of golden peppers:

Golden Habanero Pepper Seeds, Golden Cayenne Pepper Seeds,
Pepperoncini Golden Greek Seeds, Golden Marconi Pepper Seeds,
Golden Treasure Pepper Seeds, Golden California Wonder Seeds, and
Goldrush F1 Bell Pepper Seeds.

13. Ornamental Pepper Seed Collection

ornamental pepper seed collection seed label

Ornamental hot peppers are more than just good eats, they’re absolutely fun to grow and are hallmarks of edible landscaping! Gift this to a friend or family who enjoys adding a pop of color to their garden, and they’ll never grow tired of the peppers’ impressive, blooming colors. From bright-colored pods, multi-colored beauties, to peppers gorgeously black as night, this seed collection is bred to accentuate pops of colors to the chili head’s garden. The gift includes:

Chinese 5 Color, Fish Pepper, Bolivian Rainbow, Black Prince, Filius Blue, Patio Fire and Ice, and Candy Cane.

14. Salsa in a Box 

salsa in a box seed label

Give your friend or relative a seed collection that’ll motivate them to make the best salsa of their lives! From tomatoes, peppers, and herbs – the Salsa in a Box gift has all the ingredients they need to grow their own salsa. The collection includes: 

Big Delicious Tomatoes, Roma Tomatoes, Tomatillo Rio Grande Verde, Red Autumn Bell Pepper, Pepper Joe's Jalapeno Pepper, Poblano Pepper, Habanero Hot Pepper, Anaheim Pepper, Cabernet Red Onions, Patterson Yellow Onions, Cruiser Cilantro, and Genovese Basil.

15. Box of Chocolates

Box of Chocolates seed label

Know a big chocolate lover who also love to grow hot peppers? Complete their love for chocolate and hot peppers with our Box of Chocolate Pepper Collection! Get six of these delicious varieties of chocolate-y pepper and tomato seeds all at once:

Chocolate Ghost, Chocolate Habanero, 7 Pot Lava Chocolate, Trinidad Scorpion Chocolate Cappuccino , Chocolate Bell Sweet Pepper, and Chocolate Cherry Tomato

16. Tomato Garden 8-Pack

If you know a gardener who can never have too many tomatoes, they can get an entire tasty tomato garden of 8 delicious tomato varieties. This variety pack includes our most popular tomato seeds including:

Chocolate Cherry, Beefsteak, Roma, Red Brandywine, Big Delicious, Napa Giant, German Johnson, and KBX

17. Pepper Joe’s Gift Card - $10, $25, $50, and $100

pepper joe's giftcard for heat seekers

Can’t decide what to get for the chili head? Don’t worry, we also sell Pepper Joe’s gift cards! Get that hot pepper enthusiast a gift card so they can make whatever purchase they’d like to make.


Want to learn more about growing hot peppers? Check out our gardening tips and make sure to pick up some pepper seeds to get started!

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