Broccoli Cheese Soup

This creamy soup whips up in mere minutes and tastes 10x better than Panera’s broccoli cheese soup! A perfect lunchtime soup with fresh bread.

Yo. Welcome to so-crazy-soup Saturday.

Yes, I just made that up on the spot. Kinda describes my cray mood today. 😀

I’m kinda exhausted at the moment, so please pardon my insane babbling. We arrived home from our trip at about 1am last night and I can already tell that today is going to be one of those I-need-to-stick-my-head-in-a-sink-of-coffee kinda days.

If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you’ve probably seen all the fun times we’ve been having in Hot Springs, AR. It’s been awesome, but after nearly two weeks being gone, I will be MORE than happy to sleep in my own bed and cook in my own kitchen again.

Now let’s talk soup, which I’m pretty sure is the REAL reason you’re here. 😉

Raise your hand if you adore Panera with every ounce of your soul.

*raises both hands while doing an Irish jig.*

Don’t picture that. Your eyeballs might fall off.

Anywhoooo today’s soup is a spin-off of Panera Bread’s oh-so cozy and 100% best-ever broccoli cheddar-cheese soup. Except this is MY version and MY version doesn’t even require having to change outta your pajamas or put makeup on.

In other words, you don’t even have to leave the house to eat Panera-style. Or shell out the big bucks just for a teeny-tiny little bowl of soup.

It’s also a plus that this soup is about 1.5 billion times tastier than Panera. Seriously, it is so SO creamy and cheesy. Loaded with tender broccoli and shredded carrots, and SURPRISE! It’s even lower in calories if you can believe that. 😀

No, I can’t. But I’m not going to question it either. 😉

But it’s true: Panera’s broccoli cheese soup has a whopping 330 calories just in one bowl. My version is only 230 calories per bowl.

That’s a 100 calorie difference, guys. Wowzers….