Carole, are you sure that test strips are prescription-only? Sounds very odd - what harm can they do to anyone that would make them prescription-only? Might be worth checking.

And do take a look at the Diabetes UK website I mentioned earlier. They have stuff on there about balancing diet.

No offence, but I think you and your relative are getting down into far too much nit-picking detail. It's not necessary to check your glucose levels to work out what you can eat and drink - there are straightforward guidelines in existence as to what constitutes a good diet for a Type-2 Diabetic, and going down into fine detail isn't necessary. Type-1 is a different matter, though, and I wonder if your relative is doing what I did at first - panicking and thinking like a Type-1 sufferer? They're both Diabetes, but they're not identical, either in form or in treatment. Just a thought.

I've PM'd you.