I am new at this also and I stopped eating beef of any kind sticking with fish especially salmon. I also eat chicken not eating the skin, potatoes with no skin, canned fruit and all vegetables well cooked, mostly carrots. Nothing spicey which I use to like and yes restriction is what we need. I did talk to a Dietician at the VA and she gave me list of do's and don'ts and it very restrictive. My problem and I imagine or wonder if most of us are Diabetics making it even more difficult when choosing things to eat. I am use to eating strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries every morning which kept my A1C in the in the high 5's and since this diagnoisis I am now at 6.1. I went back to the berries slicing two strawberries into 4 slices, 4 raspberries, 4 blackberries, and 16 blueberries with one slice of toast for breakfast and my stomach seems to do well. The other fruit i eat is dice peaches and canned cranberries. Like I say I am new at this, have had well controlled diabetes having had it for 52 years and now 72 years old . Hope this helps but like I say I am new at this.