Hello, you can get the carbs and Cals app on your phone for a rough estimation, or you can buy a mini scale to take with you to weigh your food, or you can try it at home with kitchen utensils and weigh it, so for example for tablespoon of rice is so and so carbs, this can help you visual your food in a restaurant.
I’ve found some places(maybe not many) have the nutritional information on their websites, might be worth a try, or you could pick what you’re going to have beforehand & work it out approximately on MyFitnessPal
Unless meals are prepackaged I would take restaurant nutrition details with a pinch of salt.
Eating out is a carb guestimate but nothing to be afraid of. Being slightly high or lower than usual is unlikely to kill you. Test, take hypo treatment with you and enjoy the meal.
Hi. As my DN once said you just have to 'eyeball' the food having looked previously at books/articles which show pictures with sizes and carb count. I have found anyway that you can't rely on package carb counts. I've found that certain brands of Crumpets which list 20gm per Crumpet need twice the amount of insulin your ratio would suggest
You will soon get used to guessing the amounts of carbs in restaurant foods and as long as it's not too often you can go high on the odd occasion and sometimes you will make a mistake like I did only last week I had a beef stir fry with noodles in a chilli sauce and a pint of lager , wow when I got home bg was 22 it took me 4 days to get back to normal bgs .