Instructions: One of my favorite bread spreads is cream cheese - I use the fat free variety, but nearly ANYTHING can be mixed into it! You can mix some peanut butter into it (I use that Wonder Butter stuff) and it makes a low fat replacement to peanut butter. You can mix in mashed roasted garlic and it is a _wonderful_ alternative to garlic bread, or if you plan on kissing any body, you can spread cream cheese over the bread slices and then sprinkle them with non-fat Parmesan cheese and broil them - no garlic (or you could if you wanted to) - that is SUPER good with tomato soup. I mix low sugar jelly into mine in the morning and have that instead of butter on my bread.

I also like to mix shredded carrot and some raisins into softened cream cheese - it makes a glorious sandwich!

With a little bit of experimentation you can probably come up with your own even better then bought spread, try making an artichoke spread with the same things that the store bought version had and glue it all together with some fat free Ricotta cheese... I like that stuff too - great with pineapple mixed in on Pumpernickel bread... Ive made a bread spread with steamed broccoli, ricotta, garlic, a dash of minced Canadian bacon, and some minced onion before and it was totally delicious! Its great in calzone too - which is basically bread anyway... :-) If you have pita bread then a good lunch is some mashed black beans with homemade salsa mixed in (lots of onion makes it taste excellent if you like onion!) The sky is the limit - you could come up with any flavor or style you could imagine just by changing the things you add to your glue - soy sauce gives a definite oriental flavor to cream cheese and sprout sandwiches... Cajun spice mixed into some cream cheese with either cooked crab meat or shrimp on rolls is a delicious down south tasting treat...

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