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    Home » Fall

    Grilled Cheese Sandwich for Kids with Creamy Tomato Soup

    Published: Dec 12, 2019 · Modified: Sep 6, 2022 by Marcie Groller · This post may contain affiliate links

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    tomato soup and grilled cheese platedIn my opinion, creamy tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich totally hits the spot on a cold day! Throw a couple of crackers or goldfish on top of the soup and it's perfection!

    This soup is incredibly easy to make in the Vitamix or blender. This makes it a great recipe for kids to help out with, because all they are doing is adding ingredients to a blender and watching the magic happen as everything mixes together. 

    • adding broth to soup
    • add ingredients to blender
    • blonde child operating vitamix

    We love our Vitamix, which is powerful enough to not only blend ingredients (especially the carrots), but also heat them to an optimal soup temperature. However, this soup can easily be warmed on the stove once ingredients have been blended. 

    Our kids love the bowls that have built-in straws. I would highly recommend them! These straw bowls are cheap and provide for endless dinnertime entertainment.

    The Ultimate Sandwich for Kids

    While my kids already LOVE grilled cheese sandwiches, they are all the more excited when we turn their sandwiches into little shapes or creatures. This is surprisingly simple to do if you have cookie cutters available. We used a gingerbread man, star, airplane, seahorse and ice cream cone cookie cutters.

    • Making grilled cheese gingerbread man

    Simply make the grilled cheese, let it cool for a minute and then cut out your desired shape. You end up with the perfect sandwich for kids and plentiful grilled cheese scraps for the adults. Lol! [Seriously, though, the scraps are a meal unto themselves].

    We hope you enjoy this meal as much as our kids did. It was a real winner for us!

    🌈 KIDIFY THE MEAL 🌈


    Have picky eaters? Read More...

      🍅Add crackers to your soup! As long as you monitor their intake (lol), kids will be more amped about the meal if it comes with crackers. We put Oyster crackers on top of the soup, but you could also do Goldfish crackers or croutons. All work!

      🍅Use a straw bowl! Sometimes, actually all the time, my kids are more excited to eat a soup when they can use their straw bowl. I bought mine for soooo cheap at the grocery store. And the same exact bowls are also on Amazon - see here. Just make sure your kids don't go crazy with the slurping.

      🍅Let kids choose the cheese. My kids love American cheese, but just about any other kind of cheese is amazing when grilled with buttered bread. Haha! My sister used Tillamook medium cheddar cheese.


    🍴 MODIFY THE MEAL🍴


    Make the meal fit your dietary lifestyle!

      🍅Make it Vegan! Easy peasy! (1) Replace the whole milk with unsweetened coconut milk. For me, it's honestly a toss up as to which is better. (2) Replace the butter with a non-dairy butter, like Earth Balance. (3) Use a non-dairy cheese. I really like Follow Your Heart American Style Slices. (4) Worth mentioning is to check that your vegetable stock/broth is vegan. Some aren't.

      🍅Make it Dairy Free! See everything above! 😉

    Note: This post contains affiliate links.

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    Grilled Cheese Sandwich for Kids with Creamy Tomato Soup

    Author: Marcie & Julie
    The ultimate, tried-and-true combo: grilled cheese & tomato soup! We take this classic sandwich for kids, and make it into fun shapes!
    Total Time28 mins
    Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course
    Cuisine: American
    Servings: 4

    Ingredients

    Tomato Soup

    • 1 Tablespoon olive oil
    • ¼ onion (chopped)
    • 1 clove garlic (minced)
    • 28 ounce can whole peeled tomatoes
    • 6 baby carrots
    • ½ cup vegetable broth
    • ¼ cup tomato paste
    • ½ Tablespoon sugar
    • 1 Tablespoon fresh basil
    • 1 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar
    • 2 Teaspoon salt
    • ½ Teaspoon pepper
    • ½ cup whole milk

    Grilled Cheese Cut Outs

    • 8 slices bread (or more)
    • 4 Tablespoon butter (or more)
    • 8 slices cheese (or more)
    • cooking spray (optional, depends on what kind of pan you have)

    Instructions

    • Heat a pan on medium. Once heated, add oil, onion & garlic. Cook for 3-5 mins. Then scoop pan contents into Vitamix or blender.
    • Add the rest of the soup ingredients (except for milk) in Vitamix/blender. Process on high speed for 4-5 minutes. Add milk and process an additional minute.
    • Pre-heat a skillet over medium heat (non-stick is preferable). Spray the pan if necessary. Generously butter the outside of two slices of bread. We used about ½ T of butter per slice. Place one slice of bread with its buttered-side down onto the skillet. Add 2 slices of cheese and place the second slice of bread on top, buttered-side-up.
    • Grill the sandwich for 1-2 minutes or until lightly browned, and then flip over. Once cheese is melted and both sides are browned, remove from skillet. Wait a couple mins for it to cool. Then, use a cookie cutter of choice to cut shapes into your grilled cheese.
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    Notes

    🍅 Heating the soup: If using a Vitamix, your soup should heat up as it is processed. But you can also blend ingredients, transfer to the stove, bring soup to a boil and reduce to a simmer for 4-5 mins.
    🍅 The butter on the sandwich should keep the sandwich from sticking to the pan, but just in case, consider using a light coating of cooking spray on your pan.
    🍅 Let the sandwiches cool for a couple minutes before you cut them into shapes or they won't hold their form. Cookie cutters are the best tools to make shapes.
    🍅 You can sprinkle the soup with oyster crackers or goldfish crackers.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1servingCalories: 601kcal (30%)Carbohydrates: 46g (15%)Protein: 23g (46%)Fat: 37g (57%)Saturated Fat: 21g (131%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 92mg (31%)Sodium: 2458mg (107%)Potassium: 798mg (23%)Fiber: 6g (25%)Sugar: 15g (17%)Vitamin A: 3602IU (72%)Vitamin C: 23mg (28%)Calcium: 598mg (60%)Iron: 5mg (28%)

    *Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. While we are not certified nutritionists, we work with a WordPress-integrated nutrition API to calculate our recipes' ingredient values.

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