Creamy Italian Crock Pot Chicken

This is crock pot meal #2 for the week (from TidyMom, slightly modified), and it was Easy with a capital E. This got rave reviews from the husband and the kids wolfed theirs down, too. I have to admit, I was concerned that this was going to be a flop--the ingredients seemed too simple especially for plain old chicken breasts. BUT boy was I wrong! Even better, you probably have almost all the ingredients in your kitchen right now.

INGREDIENTS

4 chicken breasts (mine were frozen when I put them in the crock pot--they always are--but you can use thawed...whatever)
1 packet dry Italian dressing mix
1/4 cup water
8 ounces cream cheese (I use fat free)
1 can cream of chicken soup (I use Healthy Request)
1 pound pasta of some sort (spaghetti...penne for the kids...anything)

INSTRUCTIONS

(1) Put your chicken in the crock pot. Mix Italian dressing packet with 1/4 cup water and pour over chicken. Cook on low 3 hours.
(2) After 3 hours mix cream of chicken and cream cheese with a hand mixer until smooth OR you could do like I did (because I did not read the recipe) and put them in a pot on the stove over medium heat. Stir it until the cream cheese melts and combines with the soup.
(3) (Optional: At this point I took the lid off the crock pot and cut my chicken into smaller pieces--not bite-sized but smaller)
(4) Add the soup/cream cheese mixture to the crock pot and cook on low for an additional hour.
(5) Serve over pasta...cooked pasta, of course.