Salty and Sweet » carb counting http://saltyandsweet.org Daily life fighting Cystic Fibrosis and Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My Blackberry http://saltyandsweet.org/2008/09/14/my-blackberry/ http://saltyandsweet.org/2008/09/14/my-blackberry/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:35:23 +0000 Salty http://saltyandsweet.org/?p=364 How on earth did a Crackberry help me in gaining control of my diabetes?  Yea it sounds strange, but I was always out of luck when I was out and about and I was hungry.  I admit I have a horrible memory and am horrible with remembering how many carbs are in foods but now I have a handy lil friend!  On my Blackberry I can look up CalorieKing.com, or resturant websites to find the amount of carbs that are in the foods I am consuming on the run.  Yea it takes a minute or two to look things up, but considering the consequences the benefit has been priceless!

]]> http://saltyandsweet.org/2008/09/14/my-blackberry/feed/ 0 Helpful carbohydrate data http://saltyandsweet.org/2008/03/22/helpful-carbohydrate-data/ http://saltyandsweet.org/2008/03/22/helpful-carbohydrate-data/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:06:00 +0000 Salty http://saltyandsweet.wordpress.com/?p=163 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…

CalorieKingCalorieKing, 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.

Calorie King BookIf 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!) :D

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