What to eat wheel

What this wheel is for

A what to eat wheel is a picker for a meal, not a recipe site. You put in food you would actually eat, spin once, and stop negotiating. It works when two people want different things, when you have stared at a delivery app for ten minutes, or when the question is only "what is for dinner."

Use it for dinner first. The same wheel works for lunch, a late snack, or which restaurant to open. Change the lines. Do not keep a list of meals nobody in the room will eat, or the spin is wasted.

How to decide what to eat

Start with the meals already on the wheel: pizza, noodles, rice, salad, burger, soup, sushi, and breakfast for dinner. Delete any line you would refuse tonight. Add the place you always forget, or the dish already in the fridge.

One meal per line. A line can be a dish, a cuisine, or a restaurant name. "Thai" and "the noodle shop on the corner" can sit on the same wheel.

Click the wheel. The slice under the pointer is the meal. If you said you would follow it, follow it. If that slice is wrong for tonight, remove it and spin again. Leaving it on the list means it can come up next time.

Shuffle if the same foods are always at the top and it feels fixed. Sort if you want to scan the list before you spin. Neither one changes the odds.

Make the wheel fit the table

Change colors if you want the slices to look like a menu instead of a rainbow. A longer spin is useful when the whole table is watching. Weights are there if one meal should come up more often, for example the food that uses what you already bought.

You can open more than one wheel if lunch and dinner should not share a list. Spin the one in front of you, or spin them all.

The shareable view puts this list in a link. Send it to the people who are eating with you. The meals are in the link, so do not put anything private in a line.

When a wheel is a bad way to pick food

Do not use it for an allergy, a medical diet, or a meal someone cannot eat. Take those lines off before you spin. Do not use it to settle a bill, a reservation that costs money, or any choice you are not willing to accept.

Yes, lunch, or something else

Replace the list if this is not dinner. A lunch wheel might be soup, a sandwich, leftovers, and the place downstairs. A snack wheel might be fruit, yogurt, toast, and nothing. A restaurant wheel should name places you can reach tonight, not cuisines you wish you lived near.

For a strict yes or no, use the yes or no wheel. For a person rather than a meal, use the wheel of names. For a party game after dinner, use the truth or dare wheel.

Is the pick fair?

Each line starts with the same chance, unless you set a weight. Two spins in a row can land on the same meal. That is normal. The next spin does not remember the last one.

If you want to see the spread, open the fairness test and run this wheel many times. The counts should sit near each other when every weight is 1. They will not match exactly.

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