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Packing grilled cheese dippers with warm tomato soup is one of my favorite ways to turn a classic sandwich into a fun school lunch. Here, I’ll show you how to keep the dippers from getting soggy and pack the soup so it stays warm until lunchtime.
Grilled Cheese Dippers for School
Grilled cheese has always been one of the most requested sandwiches and cutting it into sticks makes it perfect for dipping into warm tomato soup. It’s one of those simple lunches that feels extra fun without adding more work. This winning combo can also be packed for school as a hot lunch and you’re going to love having this idea in your back pocket.
Keeping Them Hot And Crispy Until Lunch
You can’t really keep grilled cheese both hot and crispy for hours, so you have to pick one. The trick for these dippers to hold their crispy, buttery exterior is letting them cool completely before slicing and packing them in a sandwich container.
Packing It for Lunch
- Make the grilled cheese
Make a grilled cheese sandwich with your favorite bread and cheese. Cook until the bread is golden and the cheese is melted, then transfer it to a cutting board and let it cool completely. - Heat the soup
Heat the tomato soup until piping hot, then pour it into a preheated thermos and close the lid. - Pack for school
Once the sandwich has cooled, cut it vertically into 3 or 4 grilled cheese sticks. Pack them in a sandwich container alongside the thermos of warm soup.
Laura’s Tips for Packing Grilled Sandwiches for School
Let it cool completely before putting it into a container. If you pack it while it’s still hot, the steam creates condensation inside the container and softens the bread.
No, and I don’t try to keep it warm. There’s really no way to keep grilled cheese both hot and crispy for several hours. I let the dippers cool and keep the soup warm instead. Once they’re dunked into warm tomato soup, nobody cares that the grilled cheese isn’t hot.
Preheat the thermos with boiling water while you heat the soup. Empty the water, add piping-hot soup, and close it immediately. You can see how to pack hot food in a thermos here.
For the soup, use your favorite tomato soup or switch it up with this veggie tomato soup, my creamy high protein tomato soup, roasted tomato soup, or a creamy tomato and tortellini soup.
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Grilled Cheese Dippers Thermos Lunch
Watch How It’s Made:
Ingredients
- 1 grilled cheese sandwich
- 1 serving tomato soup
Instructions
Make the Grilled Cheese
- Make a grilled cheese sandwich with your favorite bread and cheese. Once golden and melted, transfer it to a cutting board and let it cool completely.
Heat the Soup
- Heat the tomato soup until piping hot, then transfer it to a preheated thermos and close the lid.
Pack for Lunch
- Once the grilled cheese has cooled, cut it vertically into 3 or 4 sticks. Pack the dippers in a sandwich container and the warm soup separately in the thermos.
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