These are delicious as barbeque beans! If I'm making them that way, I use 3/4 cup barbecue sauce (I use bottled if I don't have any homemade bbq sauce handy) and 1/4 cup ketchup. Add a teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce and a few dashes of liquid smoke for great flavor. The liquid smoke gives you the smoky flavors you want in a barbecue baked bean. Also, if I'm going with the barbeque flavor, I usually add chopped onions and green peppers to the ground beef mixture. Delicious!! I would consider the beans more of a "Cowboy Beans" recipe by the time you put in those additions.