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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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And fun. Now, let's get a check of your forecast with meteorologist Michelle Powers, maybe some festive flakes as well. Exactly. Some people may refer to this weather as festive and fun as well. I know not so much. It's going to be a little tough getting up and out the door, especially if you don't like the cold. It's going to be cold tomorrow, even colder on Thursday, the afternoon. Temperatures too running below average, but there are milder days just a few days away and they come back over the weekend. But at the same time, we're going to be tracking some rain Sunday could end up being very soggy. There could be some thunderstorms and even some gusty winds. This looks like a really sharp cold front coming through. So that could be powerful and pack a lot of moisture. In the meantime, our atmosphere is lacking of that moisture and it feels very bitter again, temperatures on their way to freezing or below and then look at the next several days, still cold Thursday. But Friday is sort of that transition because beyond Friday, temperatures return to the fifties. So during that time, the system coming our way is going to bring rain. It's going to be way too warm for any type of snow or anything frozen Sunday into Monday. This could be a lot of rain coming at us and there could be some gusty winds as well. So right now the theme is cold and that is here to stay. So it may look a bit festive tomorrow even into Thursday with a couple of broken showers or flurries don't count on too much though. That storm offshore is a little too far away and it jets out of here, but it brings the cold. Eventually, the milder air will take over for the end of the week and out ahead of that front on Friday and Saturday, temperatures are really going to warm up. So there's rain on the way for that. In the meantime, though temperatures tomorrow, here we go, running below average. So even though it's the afternoon when you think this is where we hit, our high temperatures temps are stopping in the forties, 41 in Stanford, 41 in Milford and Cornwall, one of the colder spots only 36 degrees. So again, with the weather headlines that just want to emphasize again, the morning wind chills are going to be tough to get through, but stick around that 10 day forecast is coming up next and we'll talk about those warmer days ahead and what exactly will open our will come our way on Sunday, Tina back to you. Thanks.

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That's good, boy. All right. So our forecast going into tomorrow is gonna be filled with clouds. We are going to be dealing with an opportunity maybe for a quick little Sprinkle or maybe a flurry. But again, I mean, nothing, nothing really to worry about at all. And even if it, if, if it does happen, I'm going to be extremely, the atmosphere is very stable, but we are starting to see things cool down so it will try to squeeze out any available moisture. And if the winds are gusty enough, maybe some lake enhanced flurries try to make the trip into New Jersey. There's a system that's dropping down to our south. That's what's going to probably aid in delivering some wet weather sprinkles to the southern half of New Jersey. By tomorrow afternoon, we are going to look for temperatures to continue to drop down into the thirties for tonight. All of that under mainly cloudy skies, some of the cooler air will be up towards the north into the west in the upper twenties. The breeze will make it feel just slightly cooler out there as far as wet weather or wintry weather is concerned just based on radar right now, there might be a flurry ongoing just to the south at 287 there in Somerset County. We're not anticipating anything in the way of accumulations. It's not going to be a big deal, but we are going to be looking for this instability to stick around for tonight tomorrow and even going into Thursday and Thursday, I think would be a better opportunity to see some maybe lake and hand streamers streaking across the area. As far as the cold air is concerned, this is going to continue to move through the area very quickly. We'll more than likely see a good shot of chilly weather returning to the area. Tomorrow afternoon, daytime highs are going to be for the most part in and around the lower forties. We have lower forties on Thursday as well and then the temperatures slowly begin to rebound. Once we get back up towards Friday, Friday is going to be the best day of the week. We are going to be looking for a decent amount of sunshine with daytime, high temperatures that are going to top out for the most part in and around the lower fifties. Saturday is looking pretty good Sunday, not all that great. Looks like we're going to be dealing with a wind driven rain event and as that rain starts to sweep across the area, looks like it happens later in the afternoon, we could be looking at a decent surge of rain and some winds could be gusting to 30 maybe even 40 miles an hour up against the coastline. I'll have more details on that forecast coming up in just a little bit. Dave. Thank you goodness, gracious. Great barrels of fire next in three things to know.

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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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