As the day of chocolate easter bunnies and jelly beans is upon us I thought it would be a good time to share one of my favorite diabetes secrets!

Counting carbs is the most frustrating thing about diabetes. I can deal with the shots, I can figure out how much insulin I need (usually), but counting how many carbohydrates in the food I am about to consume is a challenge if there isn’t one of those handy nutrition labels stuck to the side.

Here is one of my secrets…

CalorieKing, is a great website to look up carb, calorie and fat contents of a whole variety of foods, even some restaurants! They also have a mobile website you can pull up on your cellphone, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

If I don’t have access to the internet I keep this little book handy, The Calorie, Fat and Carbohydrate Counter. It too has restaurants in it, which is oh so convenient! Since I am already carrying my meter, needles, insulin, enzymes, along with the normal girly stuff, my purse is now the size of small luggage, so one little book fits easily in there! (now if I could only get someone to carry it for me!)