| Mark, one of the best ways to determine how to eat is to "eat by your meter." Test your blood sugar 2 hrs after your first bite, and you'll learn how various foods affect your blood sugars and be able to make smarter food choices. I was given a goal of 140/7.78 or less at the 2 hr reading, and try to avoid foods that cause me to go higher than this.
Foods such as potatoes, white bread, rice, pasta break down quickly, causing your blood sugar to rise. Proteins/fiber, on the other hand, digest more slowly, slowing the blood sugar rise. Pairing protein/fiber and carbs can slow the blood sugar reaction to the carbs, but many find limiting carbs gives the best blood sugar results.
I know it's hard, pasta was one of my faves before diagnosis. Now it's something I have very rarely, and then its the "Dreamfields" brand which doesn't cause near the spike of regular pasta.
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets
Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 | 
