EASY CREAM CHEESE CHICKEN SPREAD

2(8)oz. Packs Cream Cheese, softened
2 Cans Underwood Chicken Spread
2 Tablespoons Green Bell Pepper, diced fine
2 Tablespoons Peanuts, chopped fine

In a medium bowl mix the cream cheese and peppers. Add the chicken spread and mix again. Add the peanuts last. Mix again. Ref. Let come to room temp. before serving on crackers.

BLOOD PRESSURE MACHINE WOES

Last year I bought my mother-in-law a wrist blood pressure machine. So she put it up but found it the other day. After putting batteries in it she still could not get it to work. She was telling me how her and my sister-in-law worked with it and it still would not work. We can't get it off of 140/80. I looked at it and started laughing. Ok. do you have new batteries in it. Yes. Let me take a look at it. I knew when I saw it what was wrong with it. I needed a good laugh as I had been worried all day long. So I got it and looked at it and started laughing again. She could not understand what I was laughing about. I showed her the machine and of course it said 140/80. It just won't go off of that number she said. Ok give me a minute. I started peeling the plastic off of the front of the machine. Now look at it no numbers. What was wrong with it they had put a plastic covering over the face and it said 140/80. How many items today do we buy that has that plastic over the front to protect it. Almost ever electronic item does. So if you get something with it on it just peel it off. I know the clocks are like that and the tape recorders and even the phones. Sometimes the plastic is hard to peel off but just keep working with it.

"REAL LEMON" LEMONADE

This is a very old recipe I found in a book that someone had written down. Must be at leat 15 years old.

1/2 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Real Lemon
31/4 Cups Cold Water

In a large pitcher dissolve sugar in lemon juice. Add water. Chill. Serve over ice.
Low Cal. Omit sugar. Add 4-8 packs sugar substiute or 11/2 Teaspoons liquid sugar substitute.

LIKE FOOD CITY'S PASTA SALAD

1 Can Sliced Mushrooms, drained
1/2 Green Bell Pepper, or more to your liking
1 Medium Tomato, chopped medium, deseeded
1 Cucumber with hull, chopped medium, deseeded
1 Box Tri-Colored Spiral Pasta, cooked and drained
Italian Dressing, bottled kind

In a medium saucepan cook the past and drain and let cool. Cut up the vegs. Put the pasta in a medium bowl and add all the vegs. Pour just enough italian dressing over this to get it wet. May add more if you like. Stir good and ref. before serving for the flavors to blend.

LIKE FOOD CITY'S CORN SALAD

1 Bag Frozen Corn, unthawed or 1/2 bag
1 Cucumber, deseeded and diced, medium
1 Tomato, deseeded and diced small
1 Small Onion, chopped small
1/2 Green Bell Pepper, diced small
Salt and Pepper
Mayo to your taste

Unthaw the corn and use 1/2 bag or 1 bag according to how much you are making. Dice the cucumber and leave the hull on. Chop the onion and tomato. Put in the corn in a medium bowl. Salt and pepper to your taste. Last add the mayo to your taste. Start out by using a little. Just use enough to make it wet. Stir good and keep ref. This is very good.

BROCCOLI CHICKEN CREAM CHEESE CASSEROLE

2 Tablespoons Butter or Marg.
2 Tablespoons Flour
3 Cups Chicken Broth

8 Oz. Cream Cheese
1 1/2 Tablespoons Italian Dressing Mix
1/2 Tablespoon Dried Minced Onion
1/2 Tablespoon Dried Minced Garlic
2-3 Chicken Breasts, cooked and cubed
1 Box Rotini Noodles
1/2 Bag Frozen Broccoli, steamed

Cook the pasta until it is slightly firm. In a medium skillet using medium heat put the butter in and melt it and then add the flour and wisk it and make a rue. Then slowly add the chicken broth and keep wisking it. Bring to a gentle boil and let simmer for 5 minutes. Then add the cream cheese and mix well. Next add the seasonings. Mix again. Taste to see if you need to add any more seasonings. Let this simmer for around 5 mintues. Spray a 13 x 9 pan. In a medium bowl pour the cubed chicken and pasta. Next add the broccoli. Then pour the seasoning mixture over all this and stir. Pour this into the pan and bake on 350 for 20 minutes.

HOW TO KEEP LETTUCE LONGER

Store lettuce and celery in the crisper in the ref. in paper bags instead of plastic. They will keep longer.