Vegetable Cornbread, low-carb style

I'm a southern boy with diabetes. And cornbread is pretty high in carbs. That's a problem.

Start with one pachage of corn muffin mix.

Add an egg.

Chop up a large yellow squash (or a couple of medium sized zucchini) and put it in a blender along with a handfull of sliced jalepenos.

Puree it. Run the blender until it turns to mush.

Add it to the corn muffin mix. Mix it all up with a fork.

You want the mixture to be somewhat firm. Firm enough so that you can pick up a large glob with spoon and have to remove it from the spoon by using your finger.

Add Carbquik Baking Mix until the mixture reaches the right consistency. If you add to much you can thin with low-fat milk or with water.

I don't know how much of the low-carb flour substitute you'll have to add because it depends on how much water was in the squash, and how much squash you used.

The more squash you use the lower the carbs, but also the lower the cornbread taste. So you'll have to find you own level.

I just don't get it

I really just don't understand what goes through the minds of the people at American Diabetes Association. I just don't get it.

Today's recipe of the day is for cornbread.

One box of corn muffin mix, one egg, one can of creamed corn. Mix and bake.

They are suggesting that diabetics take cornbread and add some corn to it because twice the carbs is better?

Are they drunk?

How about jalapeno cornbread? Did they ever think of something like that as a substitute for more corn? It just seems insane to me. Maybe somebody can explain it to me?

A cup of creamed corn has about href="http://www.carb-counter.org/veg/search/Corn/1100">46g of carbs.

A cup of chopped pepper (green peppers or jalapenos) is about 7g of carbs.

Their recipe makes 8 servings, and they estimate 26g per serving. That's about double what a typical carb serving is. If instead of adding corn to the corn meal mix you add a mixture of peppers (mix of green pepper and jalapeno depending on your taste) you can cut that about in half.

So why don't they suggest that? Diabetes is about carbs. Carbohydrates. We're supposed to pay attention to that stuff.

I don't understand it.

If I was paranoid I'd think they are getting donations from drug companies and want to encourage everyone to be drug and insulin dependent.