Potato Cheese Soup

Yummy, easy ... PERFECT!!

• 8 potatoes, peeled and diced
• 3 carrots, sliced
• 2 stalks celery, sliced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 8 oz pkg. cream cheese
• ¼ c butter or margarine
• 1 10 ¾ oz can cream of chicken soup, (undiluted)
• 2 c milk
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 6 bacon strips fried and crumbled

In large kettle, put potatoes, carrots, celery and onion and just cover with water. Cook until tender. In mixing bowl, mix cream cheese, butter and soup. Add this mixture, milk, salt and pepper and bacon to vegetables, heat through. (Do not drain vegetables.) Excellent in bread bowls!