Hi Kathey. When cooking recipes I look up each individual foods carb count (a great place is www.myfooddiary.com), for example the carb count for a peanut butter and sugar free jam sandwich: 2 slices of bread = 30 carbs + 2 Tablespoons sugar free strawberry = 10 carbs, so the entire sandwich is 40 carbs. I know that is a simple example but do the carb count for each ingredient by the amount of entire ingredient in recipe, add all the carbs together to get your total carbs and then divide the total amount of carbs by the servings that the recipe makes. EX: you add 1 cup of white onions (14 carbs) plus 1 lb lean ground beef (0 carbs) plus 1 roma tomato (2.5 carbs) plus 2.5 cups canned pinto beans (100 carbs) the total recipe serves 5, divide your total carbs of 116.5 by 5 would equal aprox 23 carbs per serving. Hope I didn't make that more confusing than it should be😊

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beans are great for you they help with the carb break down give yourself some insulin then see how much you ate take from there that's what I do when I make chili

Made chili yesterday! Ground beef, onion, can of rotes tomatoes and 1 can chili beans. It was delicious! Didn’t make blood sugars go up much.

Don’t add beans. That’s where most of the carbs come from. I also don’t add onions - just add onion powder or salt instead. Cooked onions are too carbby for me and pure sugar according to my CGM.

We think of chili as a bowl of meat. I use beef and turkey and pork all blended.

Thanks and makes sense!!