🍕 Dinner Decider

What Should We Eat Tonight?
Spin & Decide

End the nightly "what's for dinner" debate in seconds. Pre-loaded with 20 popular cuisines, or add your favorite local restaurants. Perfect for couples, families, and indecisive foodies.

How to Use It
✓ Works offline • ✓ No sign-up • ✓ 100% free
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How People Use the Dinner Wheel

From decision fatigue to meal planning—make dinnertime easier.

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The Nightly "What's for Dinner" Debate

Stop the endless back-and-forth with your partner or family. Add everyone's acceptable options to the wheel, spin, and the debate is over. No more spending 30 minutes deciding what takes 20 minutes to cook.

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Couple's Dinner Decision Tool

Both say "I don't care, you pick"? Load the wheel with cuisines you both enjoy, eliminate recent choices, and let fate decide. Removes the pressure from one person always choosing.

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Family Meal Planning

Kids complain about dinner? Give everyone a voice. Each family member adds two options to the wheel. Spin for tonight's meal. Everyone feels heard, and pickiness decreases when they had input.

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Rotating Through Healthy Options

Build a wheel of balanced meals you want to eat more often—salad bowls, grilled chicken, stir-fry, poke. Spin daily to ensure variety and avoid defaulting to pizza every night.

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Discovering New Cuisines

Want to be more adventurous? Add cuisines you've never tried—Ethiopian, Peruvian, Vietnamese, Lebanese. Spin to push yourself out of your comfort zone. Use the "Remove & Spin" feature to track what you've tried.

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Breaking Dinner Ruts

Do you eat the same five meals on repeat? The wheel forces variety. Load it with 15-20 options, including ones you forget about. Let randomness reintroduce you to meals you actually enjoy but never think to cook.

Building Your Perfect Meal Wheel

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How to Add Your Favorite Restaurants

Instead of generic cuisines, add specific restaurant names—"Chipotle," "Local Thai Place," "Mom's Homemade Lasagna." Be specific. The wheel remembers your list, so you build it once and use it forever. Update it when you discover new spots.

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Healthy Eating Rotation Tips

Create two wheels: one for weeknight healthy meals (grilled salmon, Buddha bowls, chicken salad) and one for weekend indulgences (burgers, pizza, tacos). Bookmark each URL using the "Share List" button. Open the appropriate one based on the day.

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Dietary Restriction Customization

Filter the default options or start from scratch. Vegetarian? Remove meat-heavy cuisines and add plant-based options. Gluten-free? Add restaurants you know are safe. The wheel adapts to your needs—no bloat, just options that work for you.

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Weekly Meal Planning Strategy

Every Sunday, spin the wheel seven times and write down the results. That's your meal plan for the week. Use "Remove & Spin" to ensure no repeats. Shop for groceries based on what the wheel chose. Decision fatigue eliminated for the entire week.

Decision Fatigue Is Real—Especially for Dinner

The science behind why choosing dinner feels so hard.

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We Make 200+ Food Decisions Daily

Research from Cornell University found that people make over 200 food-related decisions every day. By dinnertime, your decision-making capacity is depleted. A random wheel removes the cognitive load—you're not choosing, fate is.

The Paradox of Choice

Having too many options makes decisions harder, not easier. When everything sounds good (or nothing does), people freeze. The dinner wheel narrows infinite options down to one clear answer in three seconds.

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Reduces Relationship Tension

Studies show that everyday micro-decisions (like dinner) cause more relationship friction than big ones. Outsourcing the decision to a neutral tool eliminates blame. Nobody picked wrong—the wheel did.

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Increases Meal Satisfaction

When you spin a wheel, you're more likely to accept and enjoy the outcome. Psychological commitment: you agreed to the rules, so you're invested in the result. Compare that to settling on something after 20 minutes of debate—you're already annoyed before you eat.

Dinner Wheel FAQs

Absolutely. The wheel works with any text. Clear the default cuisines and add "Joe's Pizza on Main St," "The Thai Spot," "Homemade Spaghetti," or "That New Taco Truck." Be as specific as you want. Your list is saved automatically in your browser.
Both people add options they're happy with. If someone says "anything but sushi," don't add sushi. The wheel only contains mutually acceptable choices. When it spins, both people have already agreed that every option is fine—no vetoes, no regrets.
The wheel doesn't auto-filter, but you can manually build a custom list. Remove the default options and add only meals or restaurants that fit your dietary needs. Once saved, you have a personalized wheel of safe, approved options. Share the URL with family members who cook for you.
Yes. Your dinner options are saved in your browser's local storage. No account, no server. The list persists between visits. If you want to access it on multiple devices, use the "Share List" button to generate a URL, then bookmark that URL on your phone, tablet, or partner's device.
Definitely. Create a wheel with healthy, meal-prep-friendly recipes (chicken and rice, overnight oats, stir-fry bowls). Spin once per day for a week and write down the results. That's your meal prep list. Use "Remove & Spin" to ensure variety across the week.
If it's on the wheel, it should be something you're willing to eat. That's the rule. If you find yourself always re-spinning when certain options come up, remove them from the list. The wheel works best when every option is truly acceptable. No veto power—commit to the spin.

Ready to Decide What's for Dinner?

Add your favorite meals, spin the wheel, and end the debate in seconds.

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