I have not tried this particular recipe, but it sounds wonderful! However, I use Sweet Baby Ray's barbecue sauce and grape jelly and frozen meatballs. Throw it all in a crock pot and cook for three hours! Amazing!!!!!!!

These meatballs are so easy to make and always a huge hit at parties.

Thank you for having this on the web. As others have, I lost my receipe and this one is always a favorite at my parties. I would love to have other recipes using the chili sauce. It is great stuff. Did you know that in Europe Heinz also has a curry sauce in the same kind of bottle. It is great as well.

Awsome recipe. I haven't made these in sometime. I'll be making them today, can't wait to get them going. Yum, yum.

Thanks a ton...I had misplaced my recipe, I remembered it was easy but forgot the amounts. Happy Holiday's!

I make mine using cocktail sauce, I have never heard of it with chili sauce, looking forward to try it with that. Does any one know how I can thicken the sauce so it sticks to the meatballs??

I am out of town and was asked to make my favoriate appetizer for Christmas eve. Didn't take long for me to decide what to bring. Couldn't remember if any thing else was used beside chili sauce and grape jelly. Thanks for having this recipe out on line...If you cook it slow in the crock pot the frozen meatballs are just as good to use...It is delicious!!!!!

I also lost this recipe had it many moons ago and only recalled it when I sited someone at the grocery store purchasing the ingredients and thinking they were so good so that's on my menu for this season.

Use jellied cranberries instead of grape jelly. Tastes better .

Made these meatballs for an office party yesterday. Got home with an empty crockpot...and some disappointed kidz...guess I'll be making more today (for them)

Been making these for years, but here's my little secret. Heat the meatballs in the crock pot by themselves first, and then DRAIN. Otherwise, the grease and water will water down your sauce.

So many variations! Which way to go? I ended up using a combination of various posted recipes:

Mix: 3.5 lbs. lean ground round, 1-1/2 med. yellow onions (grated), 3 beaten eggs, 6 tbsp. water, 1-1/2 C. bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste, 1 tbsp. honey mustard, few shakes of Worcestershire Sauce and a handful of fresh chopped parsley. Roll into small balls. Bake 35 minutes at 350°F until crusty.

The sauce: 1 jar of grape jelly, 1 18 oz. jar of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce (Sweet 'n Spicy), 1 split fresh jalapeno pepper and a handful of Ginger Snaps. Yes Ginger Snaps! Mix well and put in crock pot over meatballs. Gently stir. Turn on high to get it going then cook on low for 2-1/2 hours. Stir every once in awhile. Delicious. Serve with extra wide egg noodles or rice.

I have made these meatballs for years, since my children were small. I use Mama Rosa's meatballs from Sam's, grape jelly, 2 cans of chili--no beans (any brand), and juice of 1 lemon. I cook them in the crockpot for 4 hours on low. Stirring occassionally. If I am making them for a main entree, I serve them over egg noodles, but have never tried adding them to the crockpot itself (I'll have to give that a try sometime). I often make it for a yummy appetizer at parties or gatherings. It is one of my most requested recipes, and people are always scraping the bottom of the crockpot trying to get every last morsel. Always a big hit!

I make the sweet and sour meat balls a lot. I've made them with grape jelly and equal amount of Salsa. or grape jelly and equal amount of Bloody Mary Mix.. simmer as called for in the recipe. Add chopped drained/washed/sour kraut for last 1/2 hour of simmering. I put a stack of toss away bowls. small ones. and spoons. folks gobble them up.

Has anyone ever used sugar-free grape jelly? My daughter has type 1 diabetes and I think she would LOVE these meatballs (my hubby and I know we do!!). Going to make these over the weekend for the NFL games.