It feels like just about nothing is worse than when you’re really looking forward to a recipe and it just doesn’t turn out the way you’d hoped. At least, when you’re working away in the kitchen and chopping veggies and standing over a hot stove…when it doesn’t turn out it feels like it was all for naught, which we hate! Well here’s one recipe you’ll never have to worry about!

This is our Granny’s potato soup recipe and man, is it good. It’s thick and hearty, lots of chunky potatoes, plus plenty to keep it creamy and amazing. This is far from diet food, but you won’t even care about the calories once you try it, you’ll see! Bacon begins and ends this recipe, so its flavor is infused throughout the whole soup. That, along with potatoes, onion, celery and garlic make up the crux of this soup, but what makes it really stand out are the cream cheese, sour cream, cheddar cheese and half-and-half that go in at the end.