[Ailsa]

if you live out of packet food which tells you the exact carbs your about to eat thats fine but if like me you like on freshly prepared food its hard,

Forgot to mention in the previous post, the main reason I bought the "Using Insulin" book, is that it has a list of carbs as percentages. ie: bread is 50% carb, so you just weight the bread & mulitply the weight by 50% to get the carb content.
Its much better for me, as like you I'm not into packet food.