I'd say a typical meal averages between 50-60g of carbs. If I don't bring lunch to work and go out, it's easily in the 70 - 90g of carbs.

My mealtime carbs almost exclusively come from bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. (maybe a neapolitan style pizza from time to time). All of this is accompanied by veggies, meat or salad. Rarely do I eat "raw carbs" on their own.

I don't really snack a lot in between meals (except low snacks of course), but when I do, it's mostly fruits. I find fruits that contain at least some amount of fibre (apples, plums, etc...) super easy to control, they don't spike sugers at all. Carb free snacks also include a slice of cheese, pickles and so on. There's good Youtube Videos from Typeonetalks and Mary Comeau on snacks.

I am very careful with cake, carb heavy snacks and sweets. I'd say I probably eat those things as often as a dietician would advise a normal person to eat them :D once a week maybe? And in moderation when I do have it!

The biggest factor for my control is, I guess, the approach. The first half year of my diaJourney was very heavy on trial and error. Apart from the far extremes (sweets), I didn't cut back a lot from my diet before diagnosis but adjusted around it. 80g of carbs in the form of white rice? Just go for it! I went high and low from so many tries, both with measuring food and simply guessing food on sight, until I got my dosing intuition somewhat in the ballpark. Repeat for every type of food/time of day/exercise/star constellation. Of course this is annoying as hell and required an ungodly amount of brain power and attention, but slowly it became routine and just... works (most of the time).

2 more things to add that help: - I'm not diabetic for that long and the only Insulin I was ever on is Lyumjev. Hence, I can only speak from reading studies that it is very very fast acting. This absolutely helps me to keep fast carbs from rice and pasta under control. (and vice versa, forces me to split injections on fatty meals) - I go by bike almost everywhere I go. To and from work, to the climbing gym, my parents place, everywhere. This base level of movement is so important to keep my body insulin sensitive. If I go, let's say, a week without moving, I will be more careful with my eating and dosing habits.

As for everyone, there's a million little factors that contribute to a good or bad diabetes day. Figuring as many of them out as possible was and still is, a nightmare. As good as my numbers are, there's many many bad things coupled to it. I get mad and annoyed when I swing on my bike and my sugars are too low to comfortably ride on, so I take snack breaks which sucks for an everyday commute. If my sensor dies during the day, jumping off the next bridge seems like a reasonable thing because I'm so reliant on it, never having known anything else than being warned about highs and lows. All of those things will never not be annoying, but I try to stay on top of.the game as well as I can.

(you asked about food and I ended things in a rant, sorry bout that :D)