Being an insulin dependent type 2 diabetic on an insulin pump myself
it is the carbs that I have to count.
When I first started on insulin the "training" class I took talked about
the carbs. The easiest thing to remember was if it grows on a tree, or
a plant it has carbs. If it has a face meats (fish, pork, beef, poultry) it
has NO carbs.
Meats are the "free" foods UNLESS you bread it for cooking.
As for deserts watch out for the "sugar alcohols" because that is used
in MANY (if not most) sugar free stuff.
Look at the sugar/carbs on the sugar free cool whip than look at the
regular cool whip. They is LESS sugar/carbs in regular than in the
sugar free kind.
This is just from my own personal experiences being a diabetic.