Bowl Builder

Bowl Builder is a free tool for building a meal, plate, or bowl from scratch and seeing calories and macros total up in real time — great for meal-preppers who just want to see "what are the macros on this combo," and for Nawtch tracker users who want to save the finished result straight into their Foods catalog.

Tap a popular food tile or search for anything else, adjust the portion with the − /+ controls (toggle between grams and ounces, or tap the amount to type an exact number), and remove an item any time. Your running calorie and macro totals update instantly with every change.

When you're happy with it, Add to Foods saves the whole bowl as a single food you can log from the Today page like any other saved food. You can also Save Bowl to keep its individual components for later — reopen a saved bowl any time to tweak it further, then re-save it or add it to Nawtch again.

A saved bowl keeps every individual component (each food and its portion) so you can reopen and edit it later — add an item, remove one, or nudge a portion, then re-save it.

Hitting Add to Foods is a different, one-way action: it flattens the bowl's current totals into a single independent food entry on your Foods page, the same as any manually-added food. That food entry is a permanent snapshot — editing the original bowl afterward, or re-saving it, will never change a food entry you already created from it, including ones you've already logged on past days. If you edit a bowl and hit Add to Foods again, you get a brand-new, separate food entry, not an update to the old one.

The tap-to-add tiles and search box are backed by a built-in database of roughly 300 common bowl ingredients — grains, proteins, vegetables, sauces, and more — covering generic staples across grain bowls, poke bowls, burrito bowls, and similar. Matches from this list are instant, since there's no lookup involved.

If a search doesn't turn up anything locally, it falls back to Open Food Facts, a free, open database of packaged and branded foods — the same source Nawtch already uses for barcode scanning. For anything neither source covers well, use + Add a custom item to enter the macros yourself.

Like the rest of Nawtch, everything you build and save here — bowls and any foods you create from them — stays stored locally in this browser only. Nothing is sent to a server or account.