Broccoli and cheese soup

I love going grocery shopping in the mornings for a couple of reasons.

1. The babe is super happy in the morning.
2. There isn't too many other people there. I never have to wait in a large line up
3. I love that the store is plastered in these beautiful brightly colored stickers


If you ever see me grocery shopping please forgive me if you think I am rude and don't stop for a long conversation. These puppies get taken up quickly so I am always frantically running around the store filling my chart up. I usually never buy vegetables like this. For this bag of 14 oz its $3.50. I know many of you readers in the states are shocked but that is how much we are paying for things like this. So for $1.50 (each) I picked two of these up, with a meal idea in mind. I had never made broccoli soup before but really was craving the challenge of making a yummy broccoli cheese soup.

I did a quick search on Google and looked at a couple of recipes before decided to head over to Tammy's recipes to see if she had one that I could use. I really enjoy Tammy's site. Her recipes are so user friendly; meaning I usually have all the ingredients in my cupboards.




I followed her recipe and whipped this delicious soup up in under 30 minutes. Ok so I just double checked the recipe and realized that I didn't follow it to a tee. For one I don't usually keep chicken broth on hand but I always have chicken (and beef) OXO, so I mixed that up in 4 cups of water. Also we didn't have any cheedar cheese. I know you think this would stop me from making a broccoli cheese soup. But let me explain we have an abundance of process cheese slices (a nice present...thanks mom) which I decided would work just as well. And they did the trick!

We served the soup with a yummy toasted onion bagel. I will be making this soup again with the other bag I got on sale. I took that bag and chopped it up onto a cookie sheet and frozen it. Once frozen I placed it into a Ziploc baggie. Now I am ready to whip this soup together again when I need a fast meal. I was thinking this would be great for those Sundays were we impulsivley invite someone over after church.

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