Bev Tanner's "Dinner In A Pumpkin"

It makes a lot so it is good for Halloween parties or Ward parties or sharing one with a friend. It is some work to do these but the kids get a kick out of it.

2 lbs. ground beef
1/2 lb of sausage
3 stalks of celery (or to your liking)
1 green bell pepper
1 onion
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of cream of chicken soup
4 ounces of sliced mushrooms
1 4-ounce can of water chestnuts
2-3 tablespoons of brown sugar
2-3 tablespoons of soy sauce
1 box of instant white rice
2 large pumpkins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Thoroughly cook ground beef, sausage, celery and onion together and set aside.
In another bowl mix together cream of mushroom and chicken soup. Add in 4 ounces of sliced mushrooms, water chestnuts, brown sugar and soy sauce. Then add in prepared instant white rice. Thoroughly cooked, together.
Take two large pumpkins and scoop out the interiors and discard. Be sure to keep the cap of the pumpkin for baking.
Fill both pumpkins with meat mixture and rice mixture and thoroughly stir in pumpkins. Place caps back onto pumpkins and bake in preheated oven for one hour. Then enjoy your pumpkins!
Be careful because pumpkins will be very hot.