Glossary
The specific terms Dindins is built around, defined precisely.
Meal voting
Meal voting is a household decision process where any family member can propose a meal for an upcoming day, and the rest of the family votes on it before it's added to the week's plan.
Instead of one person guessing what everyone wants and absorbing the complaints when they guess wrong, the plan reflects what the household actually voted for. Popular proposals rise to the top of the week; nobody has sole responsibility for reading everyone's mind.
Fair cooking rotation
A fair cooking rotation is a system for assigning and rotating cooking duty across the adults in a family on a set schedule, decided in advance and tracked over time.
It accounts for real schedules rather than defaulting to whoever's easiest to ask or fastest in the kitchen. "Fair" isn't always an equal headcount split, someone working late three nights a week can't take the same load as someone home by five, but it is a decision the family made together, tracked so nobody has to remember or renegotiate whose turn it is.
Dinner democracy
Dinner democracy is the idea that deciding what's for dinner, and who cooks it, should be a shared household decision rather than one person's job.
In practice this means combining meal voting with a fair cooking rotation, so both what to eat and who cooks reflect the whole family instead of whoever happens to be planning. Dindins is built around this idea specifically, rather than being a general recipe or planning tool with voting bolted on.
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