Foodie Dice: It’s time to take a gamble on dinner

Tired of eating the same thing for dinner, night after night? A set of wooden dice, packed into up-cycled wine bottles, offers 186,624 possible meal combinations. (Courtesy Chris Robb, Foodie Dice)
Foodie Dice is just what it sounds like: A set of nine dice that come engraved with different foods in the categories of meats, grains/carbohydrates, herbs, seasonal vegetables, bonus ingredients and cooking methods. (Courtesy Chris Robb, Foodie Dice)
Sisters Liz and Sarah Downey came up with the idea for Foodie Dice when they were tired of cooking the same thing for dinner, night after night. (Courtesy Chris Robb, Foodie Dice)
The dice are laser engraved and stored in up-cycled wine bottles. (Courtesy Chris Robb, Foodie Dice)
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WASHINGTON – Do you know what you’re cooking for dinner tonight? Why not roll the dice on the menu?

That’s what Liz and Sarah Downey suggest. The two Santa Rosa, Calif., sisters bring a whole new meaning to the phrase “play with your food” with Foodie Dice, a product designed to shake up your normal cooking routine.

Foodie Dice is exactly as it sounds: a set of nine dice, laser engraved with different foods in the categories of meats, grains/carbohydrates, herbs, seasonal vegetables, bonus ingredients and cooking methods.

“We were cooking a lot, but cooking the same things over and over,” says Liz Downey, who explains that she and her sister, Sarah, came up with the idea for Foodie Dice about a year ago.

“Sarah said,

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