You can leave out the shrimp (or use crab instead) in this doctored up ready made dip.  The Costco dip is good and you can keep it in the frig/freezer  for emergencies. 

Ingredients:

• 1 30 oz Costco artichoke and spinach dip
• 1 lb bay shrimp (or other shrimp chopped)
• 1 4 oz can diced chilies
• 4 green onions – sliced thin, green and white parts
• 1 Roma tomato – diced
• Wheat Thins

Directions:  

1. Mix dip, chilies, onion, tomato.
2. Serve with Wheat Thins.

Serves:  20 or so

Source:  Because anything “store-bought” can be improved.

This dip calls for just cream cheese.  We have found that the addition of an equal amount of mayonnaise makes it more “spreadable”.  This is good with crackers or fruit – an appetizer or dessert!

Ingredients:

• 8 oz cream cheese
• 1 8 oz can crushed pineapple, well drained
• 1 handful fresh mint chopped

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
2. Serve with crackers.

Notes:
The easiest way to make this is to use disposable gloves and mix the ingredients with your hands. (unless adding mayo – then a mixer works.)

This is best made 24 hours before it is required to allow the mint flavor to go through the other ingredients.

Serves:  2 cups

Source:  BestRecipes.com, recipe by TrishJ

This is one of those dips that is better the next day.  We cut the mayo to 1/2 cup and added 1 cup of cream cheese to make a filling we could mound on toasted  bread rounds.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 c toasted chopped almonds
• 3 slices crispy bacon, crumbled (We use the store bought ones.)
• 1 1/2 c shredded cheddar cheese
• 3/4 c mayonnaise (Miracle Whip makes a good dip too.)
• 1 Tab minced onion (Dried minced onions work too.)
• 1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

1. Combine all the ingredients well.   It can also be mixed in a food processor for a smooth dip.
2. Put in a serving bowl.

Serves::  6 – 8 about 2 cups

Source:  Genius Kitchen, Recipe by celestial_star03

I can’t believe it!  The Los Angeles Times actually published – in the Saturday Section – a recipe for onion soup dip.  Did’t we all “just know” how to make that from about age five?

History: Invented by an unknown Los Angeles chef in 1954 who paired Lipton’s dried soup mix with sour cream (or cream cheese), the concoction was originally called “California Dip” when Lipton promoted it nationally via television and print advertising.

“Lipton onion dip
I like to think that my lifelong love of chips and dip started in the
backyard of my grandmother’s Torrance house in the ’80s with a wooden
bowl, a tub of sour cream and a blue box of Lipton onion soup mix. I’d
spend most summer days in that backyard, lounging on a beach towel in
the shade of my grandmother’s giant, aboveground pool. She would
always saunter out of the house wearing something fabulous — a kaftan
from the ’60s over a one-piece bathing suit — holding a wooden bowl of
onion dip and a larger wooden bowl of chips.
The dip, magically whipped up in two steps and made by following the
directions on the box, has been a fixture at family gatherings ever since. If
we’re sitting down to watch the U.S. Open, the Lakers, the Seahawks (my
dad will follow Pete Carroll wherever he goes) and of course, the Super
Bowl. There’s something comforting in the bits of dehydrated onion and
the sometimes swirls of salty, almost-real-onion flavor that result when
someone has been a little lazy in mixing in the onion powder that day.
When I once tried to make a version from scratch, with actual
caramelized onions, there was an all out chip and dip revolt. So we go
back to the original, every time, and I can’t imagine a Super Bowl party,
or any Harris party, without it. — Jenn Harris

Ingredients:

• 1 envelope Lipton Recipe Secrets Onion Soup mix
• 16 ounces sour cream
• Chips or vegetables, for serving

Directions:

1. In a bowl, stir together the soup mix and sour cream until evenly
   combined.  (Oh, for heaven’s sake, mix it in the sour cream carton!)
2. Chill if desired.
3. Serve with your favorite chips or vegetables, preferably Kettle Salt and
   Pepper chips with ridges.

Serves:  Makes 2 cups dip.

Source:   Los Angeles Times, Adapted from the Lipton Recipe Secrets Onion Soup mix box.”