Dinner Wheel: Spin a Dinner Idea to Cook

Dinner wheel with 16 home-cooked dinner ideas, from spaghetti to fajitas. Spin when nobody can decide what to make tonight, or plan the week.

Tonight
Meal planning
Kids helping

On this wheel

Spaghetti
Tacos
Stir fry
Homemade pizza
Chicken curry
Burgers
Fajitas
Mac and cheese
Chili
Fried rice
Lasagna
Soup and bread

Why use a dinner wheel

Sixteen easy dinners to cook at home are already on the wheel. Spin once for tonight, or spin for every night of the week and write the shopping list from the results.

Decide what to cook tonight
Spin once and agree to cook whatever it lands on, so dinner starts sooner.
Plan the week’s dinners
Spin seven times and hide each winner, so every night of the week gets a different dinner.
Let the kids pick dinner
Children can take turns spinning, then help cook the meal they picked.

This wheel wears the Slice Slice Baby theme: a hot pizza in a neon-lit, subway-tiled slice shop. Your own copy keeps it, or pick another wheel theme.

How to use the dinner wheel

Click the wheel to spin it.
Wait for it to slow down and stop on a random entry. The winner pops up on screen.
Click “Hide & Respin” to take the winner out and spin again, so nothing is picked twice.
Click “Create your own dinner idea picker” to save your own copy, change the entries, and share or embed it.

All 16 entries on the dinner wheel

Spaghetti
Tacos
Stir fry
Homemade pizza
Chicken curry
Burgers
Fajitas
Mac and cheese
Chili
Fried rice
Lasagna
Soup and bread
Baked potatoes
Fish and chips
Quesadillas
Breakfast for dinner

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Frequently Asked Questions

What if we don’t want to cook?

Spin the what to eat wheel instead: it picks a kind of food to order or eat out, from sushi to ramen.

Is the wheel really random?

Yes. Every entry has a slice of the same size, and where the wheel stops is picked with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), so nobody can predict or rig the result.

Can I change the entries on this wheel?

Yes. Click “Create your own dinner idea picker” to save your own copy. You can then add, remove or rename entries, change the theme and spin settings, and share or embed your wheel.