Bone to Bowl builds personalized fresh food recipes grounded in real USDA nutrient data — then checks the math so you don't have to. You don't need to go all-in on day one. Start with 25% fresh alongside your current kibble, or dive straight in. Either way, your dog's nutrition balances over time through rotation.
About us
We have four poodles — two standards, two minis. When our standard Yoshi started having GI and acid reflux issues, fresh food seemed like the obvious next step. But every recipe we found assumed you already knew the nutrition math. You had to find a calorie calculator separately, apply it yourself, and figure out the kibble transition on your own. Nobody told you it was okay to start at 25% fresh and work up gradually — or that on a busy week, keeping some kibble in the mix while you cook less was still progress, not failure.
That became our whole approach: nutrition that balances over time, not per-meal perfection. We're dog parents, not nutritionists. So we built the tool we needed: one that handles the science, meets you wherever you are in the transition, and makes fresh feeding something you can actually sustain.
Bone to Bowl handles the analysis so you can focus on the cooking.
Breed, age, weight, activity level, and any food sensitivities. Calorie targets calculated using the veterinary RER formula with life-stage multipliers.
Built on USDA FoodData Central nutrient data, cross-referenced against AAFCO standards. Protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus — all accounted for. Cooking instructions, batch options, and a feeding schedule included.
Make it in your kitchen with grocery store ingredients. Save favorites, log digestion, rotate proteins for balance over time. Your whole feeding journey, in one place.
Most recipe tools hand you one recipe and forget your dog. Bone to Bowl follows them. We track your dog's age by breed size — a Great Dane becomes a senior years before a Chihuahua — and when they're nearing a new life stage, we let you know. You decide when they're ready; then a fresh recipe recalculates their portions and ingredients for who they are now. Calorie needs, protein targets, and feeding frequency all shift as dogs age — this is the difference between a one-time recipe and a tool built for your dog's whole life.
Every recipe is checked against hard nutritional floors before you see it — protein by life stage, calcium targets, fat minimums, organ limits, and Ca:P ratio. If it fails any check, it's automatically regenerated. Every calculation is grounded in published veterinary nutrition standards: AAFCO 2023 nutrient profiles, the National Research Council's (NRC) Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats (2006), and Pet Nutrition Alliance calorie guidelines — the same standards used to formulate commercial pet food. No proprietary guesswork.
Saving recipes isn't just storage — it's how balance over time actually works. Bone to Bowl tracks your active rotation and shows you how your saved recipes complement each other across 24 nutrients. Spot the gaps before they matter. See which proteins you're leaning on. Know when your rotation is working.
Every ingredient is matched to values from the USDA FoodData Central database — the same dataset used by researchers, registered dietitians, and the US government. Calories, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, vitamin D, omega-3, taurine, vitamin A, vitamin E, and copper. Not AI guesses. Real numbers from real food science.
Every recipe includes a full macronutrient breakdown and a 24-nutrient panel tracked against AAFCO targets — minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, and choline, all from USDA data. Almost all 24 are met by food and rotation. Iodine is the one true supplement floor — flagged on every recipe with a daily dosage. Vitamin E is tracked per recipe and the panel shows whether it's met from food; oily fish, fish oil, and olive oil cover it reliably. When mixing with kibble, you see combined totals across both foods.
You found it in a Facebook group, got it from your vet, or built it yourself over time. Your dog eats it well and you're not looking to start over — you just want to know if it's balanced.
Photograph the recipe. Bone to Bowl reads the ingredients, runs the nutrition against your dog's specific targets, and shows you exactly what each meal provides across 20+ nutrients. Calcium, iron, copper, vitamin D, choline — all mapped against AAFCO standards for your dog's weight and life stage.
If there are gaps, you'll see them clearly. If you want to close them, one tap generates an elevated version that keeps your base ingredients and fills what's missing — with a breakdown of what changed and why.
One note on supplements: proprietary blends — Balance IT, iViBlend, NuVet, and similar — aren't in our ingredient database because their formulations aren't publicly disclosed per-nutrient. If your recipe relies on one, the audit will flag it and show the nutrition from the whole-food ingredients only. The elevated version replaces supplement-dependent nutrition with food sources wherever possible — real ingredients you can find at any grocery store.
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