@maconsulting2
I am a spouse of a diabetic 1.5. What we found is foods high glycemic will digest quicker and put glucose carboyhdrates in your systmem much faster that low glycemic.

So we try to add a protein at every meal and try to stay wiht low glycemic (spell) meals. So low glycemic meals will take longer to digest and therefore not release carbohydrates into your system.

This has worked pretty well. One thing we found recenlty by just watching what happens and keeping a food journal is when she ate white bread (she like a potato bread) we saw her glucose numbers high. When we stopped the bread there was immediate improvement.

One thing that surprised us was white potatoes. They are listed as high glycemic but she can eat without the same drastic upswing in her glucose numbers that bread brings. I think the potatoes (spell) have fiber in them which may delay it.

You can go on line and get a list of high and low glycemic foods which we have done. But we found keeping a food journal much more accurate for what your direct response to food will be as may be different for each person. You mentioned beef chilli. The beef would be high protein and thus slow metabolism of it. Beans are the same but not as much. If you have vegetables in the chilli it also would slow down the glucose metabolism.

I got a reply from on poster regarding my wife struggle with this and me trying to help as care giver that what we were describeing (spell) was the glucose roller coaster. Boy that hit the nail right on the head.
Good luck.