Cheesy Mac and Cheese Soup

I had never made a cheese-based soup so this was a fun and yummy challenge for me. I chose a vegetable broth for my base since it’s a meatless soup anyway (a meat-based soup would probably need a fattier stock for proper taste) and figured I’d at least attempt at giving it a healthy zing in the form of sauteed vegetables. But let’s face it … it’s a cheese and pasta soup so there isn’t much in the way of redeeming health value anyway, so the addition of the veggies is probably just to appease me