Maybe we should start a thread on inexpensive recipes appropriate for diabetics. Here is one cheapo recipe. It assumes that folks can either get dried vegetables or are drying their own on paper towels or in cheap dehydrators or on racks in a convection oven
Ingredients: 1 one pound can of wild Alaskan Salmon, about $3. This is packed in its own cooking brine sometimes right on shipboard so it is safe and not too salty. About a third to a half cup of dried vegetable pieces (think carrots, onions, celery, maybe a teaspoon of either dill or parsley. One egg.
Pour everything in the can into a mixing bowl and mash it. Beat the egg and mix it in. Add half the vegetables and mix them around until not so juicy. Let sit until veggies rehydrate some and then more vegetables until you can form the mass into patties. But let sit again until the mix is rehydrated before actually making the patties. Coat outside with some kind of oil. Bake in oven. When one side seem done, turn over.
This also works in microwaves.