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News 12's Alexa Farrell has The Real Deal on how to save some money on Thanksgiving dinner. 

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Yeah, Nick again, some heavy rain is on tap for your Sunday. You'll get to enjoy a lot of your Saturday. Uh, but again, as we push forward into your Sunday afternoon, we're watching for heavy rain, we could see upwards to two, maybe three inches of rain for some spots. And we're watching for some strong gusty winds upwards to 50 MPH. We're gonna time things out. Futurecast takes us through what's gonna be again, a chilly morning for today. Heading into this afternoon, we're still gonna work with some sunshine. That's the plus side to today. I know yesterday was mainly gray and a lot of cloud cover. We're gonna see some more sun heading into the afternoon with those numbers into the forties, 45 for West, 44 for Norwalk heading into tonight. You will still need that heavy coat with numbers dropping off down into the thirties. Then we see those temperatures on the up as we're pushing forward into your Saturday again, a lot more cloud cover for you tomorrow to start off the weekend. But look at some of these numbers 52 for Newtown. It'll feel good out here in Norwalk at 50 as well. 53 for those out toward orange. Certainly coming after a stretch of some cold days. Now, to be honest with you, we're kind of dealing with the same setup that we did last week. We had Wednesday, Thursday with some chilly weather. Friday. Numbers started to bounce back. It was a pretty decent Saturday last week. And if you remember and then what happened Sunday, we brought in some rain. We're seeing another storm this Sunday, early parts of your Sunday look to be ok for right now again, the timing could shift. So you gotta stay locked in with us. Still work with 50 degree weather for the early parts of your Sunday. We're actually gonna get into the sixties, but it's gonna be tough to enjoy because there lies again, some heavy rain, you could see some clusters, some thunderstorms potentially heading into the afternoon. We're gonna get a little bit of a break by your six o'clock hour. But then look what happens heading into your Sunday night overnight. Parts of your Monday, we'll work with another swath of some heavy rain and thunderstorm activity. So for that first round, you're looking at about a half of an inch and then once we push through your Monday morning after that commute to back to work or school, you're looking at an additional two inches. So that's where we can see some spots, 2 to 3 inches of some rain, strong gusty winds upwards to 40 maybe 50 MPH for the overnight. So you maybe want to tie down those Halloween, um, those Christmas decorations and stuff around the house. And then as we fast forward into the second half of your Monday, we start.

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Back in my day. All right, let's see where the forecast is headed. As we go into the weekend, we've got rain. We have wind and a lot of it. Now, the timing of it is going to be critical. Most of the storminess that we're anticipating for Sunday is going to happen very late Sunday night into early Monday morning, the weekend is salvageable. Saturday is great and warm. We just see a little bit more cloud coverage. The first part of Sunday, up until about maybe three, four o'clock in the afternoon should be dry. Then the showers start and become steadier and heavier when all is said and done. We're likely going to pick up between 1 to 2 inches of rain in our rain gauges and a lot of that is going to happen very quickly and then the winds are picking up also. So it's a wind driven rain and if we do approach wind gusts of 4045 maybe even 50 miles an hour and it lasts for a couple of hours occasionally hitting those gusts, not, it's not gonna be a 34 hour sustained 40 or 50 mile an hour. Wind gust, it's periodically happening, but that's the type of wind that could get the power to flicker from time to time. We're at 39 dropping down to about 32. The opportunity for rain is going to be Sunday night into Monday morning, Saturday is looking great. Sunday afternoon is ok. It's cloudy but you'll be able to feel it in the air that the rain is certainly going to be building. So for tonight, temperatures, twenties and thirties with just a few clouds around Friday is gorgeous with sunshine. Temperatures are back up into the upper forties. We look at the extended forecast and as I mentioned, Saturday is warm but clouds are building Sunday morning, early Sunday afternoon, cloudy dry that changes going into Sunday night into early Monday morning. Give yourself a lot of extra time in that Monday morning routine to potentially deal with some travel headaches, getting wherever you go, the rain and the wind are gone for next week, the sunshine is back out but the cold that returns with morning lows in the twenties and thirties, daytime highs in the lower forties.

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The Real Deal: How to cook up Thanksgiving sides for less 

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Our friends over at investopedia broke down some of the prices that you'll be paying in the grocery store. This Thanksgiving data shows that prices are actually down this year for an £8 ham. You'll be paying about $24.35 for a £16 turkey, $18.85 cents for £3 of potatoes. About three bucks and for almost a pound of cranberries just under $2 prices are down about 4%. So we went over to our friends at the pantry and chef Dan gave us a few ideas of things that we can cook on a dime for the holiday. A butternut squash soup. Uh You can use any squash. You can even use sweet potato. It's super easy. Four ingredients, nothing hard. Just a little bit of oil, some shallots. J I'm gonna tell you four ingredients, I mean four ingredients, some butternut squash and this was quick. Just sauteing it up a little bit. Just getting uh just getting little flavors. Going touch of cinnamon and then some water. Once the squash is soft, pure it, it's beautifully silky, delicious butternut squash soup. And then what I did was I took a little bit of uh this to pump the seeds that were inside. Just throw a little bit of seeds outside as a nice garnish. Next, we're gonna make cranberry sauce. Now you can buy cranberry canned cranberry sauce super cheap. But a lot of high fructose corn syrup in there. And I'm, I'm not really trying to, I'm not trying to take all that in. Especially on the holidays. I wanna save all that for dessert. Cranberries, orange zest sugar as much sugar as you desire. I put about a half a cup to one bag of cranberries and one orange. It's going in a pan, orange juice, a little bit of water. You're gonna just simmer it a few minutes. Really get those berries popping, let the sugar melt into that liquid. Throw it in, blend it up after it's blended. We have a super rich delicious cranberry sauce with some sugar. Got no little bit of acid and orange cuts that, that tartness of the cranberry. Super easy and delicious. And chef Dan has a few tips to help you save money on your Thanksgiving dinner. Don't be afraid to jump off some stovetop stuffing. It's cheap. It's easy. You can doctor it up however you want add some apples and cranberries chicken stock. A lot of people prefer chicken and turkey this time of year. It's actually cheaper to get a whole chicken. Also talking about people coming over for the holidays. Don't be afraid to ask people to help you out. You know, potlucks beautiful things to keep an idea. I'm Alexa Farrell and that's the real deal.

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