About Yummy Lummy

Yummy Lummy, the food blog if you work full-time and live alone?

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Yummy Lummy Cooking for One

Yummy Lummy is about cooking meals for one. I want to inspire you to cook simple meals with flavour and fun. While I’m not about to guarantee these are quick and easy recipes, most of them don’t require much effort. I started Yummy Lummy to help me help you. People working full-time and living alone.

Some recipes use equipment like a precision cooker and a water bath. These recipes can be made without special equipment, but to do it with a large saucepan and thermometer requires you to monitor the water temperature throughout the cook closely.

The other special equipment I often use includes a slow cooker and a pressure cooker. You can slow cook in an oven, but you must monitor the temperature carefully.

Some of us think about food all the time, others not so much. Lately, the recipes have been weekend creations with a smattering of weekday meals.

What about frugal living needs?

Yummy Lummy isn’t about frugal cooking and living. That said, I’m conscious that many readers will be retired and/or have limited means. If you feel my recipes are too extravagant, please leave feedback in the comments, and I hope I can provide thriftier solutions.

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    1. Thanks, Sue. It’s a little frustrating. Facebook is so big and I’ve tried to seek resolution but all attempts have failed.

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  35. Hey there, I’ve visited your blog for a while and found it interesting. You’re sharing various kind of recipes, that’s so awesome. Thanks

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  36. Gary, what the hell? Your page has been blocked on FB and Insta??? That’s outrageous. I’ve actually blocked FB from my life now, and I don’t miss it one teensy bit 🙂

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    1. Sorry, Linda, your comment got caught in Spam.
      Yep, I think I know what happened. I’m aware of some people who don’t like me and at one stage there was a campaign to close my blog. They got me by reporting that this blog had inappropriate material on it. Bizzare I know but that’s what happens when people don’t like opinions.

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      1. Imagine! Me, classy and and decent content going into spam. The horror! The horror!
        Even worse: people don’t like you? How can they not like you? Stupid fools!

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  38. Wowsa! They blocked you!! How does that even work! They don’t appear to pay much attention to people who report other people from what I hear. Is there nothing you can do about it (I already know the answer!) …but I mean if you can prove they were wrong can you try. This is your hobbyhood after all.

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    1. It’s pretty crazy. My guess is some people who don’t like me decided to report me for breaching the Facebook terms of service. I’m not sure how a food blog contravenes the Facebook terms of service though. I’ve tried to contact Facebook, I’ve sent them messages and in I’ve not heard anything in return. I ended up started another food blog which I post to nightly and it’s for short form recipes and photographs. Check out https://randomyummy.com if you like.

      This experience has made me ponder the value of Facebook.

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      1. Have a look at one of my (guest) posts about a girl whose Insta was hacked. (Facebook own Insta) and see if what she did could help you. It shouldn’t be too far back as I haven’t put up many posts since.
        You might be able to get hold of someone and tell them that someone is slandering you for whatever reason.

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    1. I figure I may as well describe myself as I see myself. An amoeboid creature always out looking for a feed 😂

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  42. Loved your site and observations (mind you for a keto blogger like myself was a bit hard looking at that yummy food) nice to see another Queenslander in this blogger world …everyone seems to live everywhere else 🙂

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    1. Dear Rosemary, thank you for visiting and for your kind comments. It’s good to know there are Queenslanders around 😃
      Even though I live in Canberra, as I tell my friends who never understand my jokes or why I say things the way I do, I am and always will be a Queenslander.

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    1. Hi Sharon,
      Thanks. I’m sorry it took so long to reply to your comment. It got caught in spam.
      Thanks for visiting my food blog.
      Gaz

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  47. Bah! I never get trolls. I welcome them… at least sometimes to play with. But I get that they can be energy sapping and irritating when all you want is good convo.

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  48. I just read your response to the bloggess about Black Mirror. I too watched the Star Trek episode first. Then I watched the first episode of season 1. I almost stopped watching. Had I watched Season 1 first, I probably would not have watched any more. Be warned. S1E1 is VERY disturbing.

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  49. Even if you don’t live alone, it’s much easier to double up a recipe than divide it. I often make two meals anyway for my husband and I as we don’t like the same stuff, so this is useful for all of us!

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  51. I really enjoy your posts Gary but having difficulty sending a comment on any of them. Have comments twice on your Otis Dining Hall meal and also on your sports post but then it disappears so just trying this via my iPhone.

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    1. Hi Sue,
      I can’t check my spam folder from my iPhone (well at least I don’t think I can). I’ve just gone into the back end of my dashboard, and guess what? Your comments are in spam and for the life of me, I don’t know why. Your comments never contain trigger words for my blacklist so it’s a mystery.

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      1. Thanks for letting me know Gary. At least I know they arrive. There is another blogger that happens too also ie goes into his spam. No idea why.

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  52. Hi Dr Lum! I was one of your medical students in Darwin. I still remember your story about being the first therapeutic p**p donor in Australia 🙂 I’m happy to have found your blog!

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  53. I’ll tell you something! I stated living alone 7 years ago. Clueless about cooking, I initially settled on Maggi. The maggi survival went on for a while, until I could have it no more.

    Then one fine day, I gathered the strength to pick up my armour (apron) and went to the kitchen.

    There was no looking back 🙂

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    1. Yes, I’ve eaten goat a few times. I like it slow cooked so the neat falls apart. It’s nice in a curry.

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  56. Continued from Sarah Ferguson’s blog! I had a pulled pork sandwich from their piggy a few days ago. This weekend they are going to roast a goat 🙃

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  57. I love Brussels sprouts. You have a very nice blog and I love the concept. Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada. 🙂

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    1. Thank you very much Linda. I’ve never been to Montreal. I’ve only visited Ottawa and Winnipeg so far in my visits to Canada. It is still cool in Canberra.

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  58. Thank you for sharing. I don’t like to cook but I do have sporadic moments of fun in the kitchen. Making gumbo Friday. 🙂

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    1. Mmm…Gumbo. It’s not a common dish here in Australia. I’ve never made it but I’ve eaten it a few times when I’ve been overseas.

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  60. I discovered as a young man that I had a real problem with food. There is almost nothing I don’t like. Get it on the plate I will eat it. I also hate to throw anything away.

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  61. I am puzzled??…My grand daughter Astoria asks for Yummy Lummy for her 11th birthday tomorrow. I am Australian but live in Florida, just finding out about all this, do you have any books published. Not sure where to go with this. Thanks

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    1. When I told my grade 6 teacher I wanted to be a chef he laughed at me. My grade 3 teacher told my parents I should leave school after grade 10 because I’d be better off attending a trade school given my poor grades. In retrospect I should have taken the advice become a chef and travelled the world.

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  65. Hi, I found your site on Michael Origin’s site 🙂 Very interesting to read a food blog by a pathologist! I am in my last year of medschool now and can’t wait to be finished 🙂
    Looking forward to your posts!
    Have a great day,
    Deniza

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    1. Thank you very much. I hope you enjoy the end of medical school. Once you finish life gets so much better and much more interesting.

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    1. Hi Daniel
      Thanks. I’ll try to get to this when I can.
      I’m grateful that you thought of me for this 😃

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    1. Thanks Gail. I adore seafood. It’s hard to beat. I’m also a sucker for sweets. I loved the colours of these ones.

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  71. Ok so when I start my world tour, I’m coming to visit you in Australia. We are going to cook up a storm, and we will watch a True Blood / Walking Dead Marathon. That is all. 🙂

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  72. I love your Queensland Maroons kit!!!! Had to look up to see what a canetoad was. Good grief – those things can get to be 4 lbs and live 15 years!!!! I’m not familiar with Aussie Rugby so I learned a few things; old dog – new tricks. Great food blog!

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