Mama Calidad

This is my sister's recipe:

Potato cheese soup:
6-8 potatoes peeled and diced
2-3 carrots sliced or chopped
3 celery stalks sliced or chopped(optional)
1 onion chopped (optional)
1 pkg.(8oz) cream cheese softened
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 can cream of chicken soup undiluted
2 cups of milk
salt and pepper to taste.
4 bacon strips fried and crumbled could use bacon bits (optional)

*place potatoes, carrots, celery&onion in large pot cover with water and cook until tender. Meanwhile in large mixing bowl combine cream cheese butter soup mix well. add milk salt pepper & bacon and add all to vegetables and heat through. For a thicker soup drain water before adding cream cheese mixture. (yield 10-12 servings)
*cream of mushroom soup works too
*sometimes I put in sour cream to add more richness
* I usually make this recipe plus half of another to make a huge pot. When I do this I put in both bricks of cream cheese and one of each kinds of soup(crm. chick and crm. mush)