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Thanksgiving for 8 for Under $80: Make This Feast for $79.79

Butternut Squash Soup with Cider Cream
Squash, $3.25; leeks, $1.99; carrot, 25 cents; celery, $1.69; apples, $2; fresh thyme, sage, and chives, $5.97; apple cider, $2.50; sour cream, 99 cents; heavy cream, $1.29. (Use water instead of canned stock for better flavor. Using dried herbs you already own will cut the price by $6.)
Total=$19.93

Roast Turkey with Oranges, Bay Leaves, Red Onions, and Pan Gravy
14-pound turkey, $16; 2 navel oranges, $2.50; 3 small red onions, $1.30; bay leaves, $1.99; butter, $1: (If you make regular pan gravy using a slurry of flour and water, you do not need turkey stock. Add $2.29 more for a box of kosher salt if you plan to brine.)
Total=$22.79

Herbed Bread Stuffing
1 pound country-style bread, $2.99; 3 onions, $1.30; celery — used from soup recipe; dried herbs — use fresh sage and fresh thyme from turkey recipe; 1 stick butter, $1; chicken broth, $1.99.
Total=$7.28

Brussels Sprout Hash with Caramelized Shallots
1 1/2 pounds Brussels sprouts, $4; butter, $1; shallots, $1.50.
Total=$6.50

Cloverleaf Rolls
Yeast, $1.89; 1 stick butter, $1; egg, 25 cents; whole milk, $1; bread flour, $4 for a 5-pound bag
Total=$8.14

Pecan Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin, $2.50 for a 15-ounce can; brown sugar, $1.09; light corn syrup, $2.69; pecans, $4.49; eggs, $1; lemon, 89 cents. Crust: 2-pound bag flour, $2.49; butter, $1.
Total=$15.15
Grand Total=$79.79

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Regina Schrambling is best known for her acerbic Web site, gastropoda.com, and blog, gastriques.blogspot.com, but proudest of being a two-time refugee from The New York Times. She left the national desk in 1983 to enroll in the New York Restaurant School and was lured back as deputy editor of the Dining section, from which she resigned in 2002 to become a contract writer for the Los Angeles Times food section. She writes for magazines including Metropolitan Home, New York, Real Food, and Edible Brooklyn, as well as Slate and Salon.

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Okay, since I’m not a big fan of shopping, I typically try to get all my Christmas shopping done online.

That means I’m on the lookout for free shipping offers, since those UPS charges can add up fast - and I found a great website that has done all the searching for me (and you)!

Check out freeshipping.org - free shipping info and coupon codes for over 800 stores, including Target, Kohl’s Amazon, JCPenney and more!

An Australian man has made video of what he claims is Jesus in the clouds…

Now, while I don’t automatically dismiss this kind of stuff, I’m just not seeing it in the video. Just looks like a bunch of clouds to me… am I missing something?

Take a look at it for yourself - and post your comments below!

See “Jesus in the Clouds” Video Here!

Gary Moore has been a Christian financial advisor for over 30 years - and he was gracious enough to appear on the afternoon show on Life 89.1 for 4 days, providing insights on today’s economy from a perspective grounded in scripture. What’s really going on with our economy? What is this $700 billion bailout plan? What should each of us be doing to keep our nest eggs safe?

Gary gave some great advice - check out the full interview clips below!

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For more on what Gary Moore has to offer (including his recent books), check out financialseminary.org!

1. The Homeownership Preservation Foundation

Call 1-888-995-HOPE (4673) and receive free counseling when you’re facing foreclosure. The hotline is staffed 24/7 by 400 counselors. The average waiting time to talk to one of them is two minutes.

Counselors will go over your options and do everything they can to help you stay in your home.

A year after receiving counseling, 70 percent of those counseled were still in their homes, Hernandez says.

“I listened to someone talk for three hours the other day,” she said. “At the end of the session, counselors give you their direct phone number, and that counselor is yours for as long as you need them.”

Although the foundation primarily works on foreclosures, counselors can connect you with free services if you have other financial issues, such as credit card debt.

Fell, a policy analyst for the Food and Drug Administration, speaks three times a week to the counselor she reached through the Homeownership Preservation Foundation. Her counselor, Nadiyah Casey, got her $1,300 back from the first agency she tried and is trying to get Fell’s bank to lower the interest rate on her adjustable-rate mortgage. She’s also trying to get the state of Maryland, where Fell lives, to lower her property taxes.

2. SCORE

SCORE, a nonprofit association working in partnership with the Small Business Administration, offers financial counseling to small businesses.

You can get face-to-face counseling by using their ZIP code locator, or you can receive counseling via e-mail.

You may be a small business and not even know it, says SCORE spokesman Michael Keaton.

“A mom operating a tutoring service out of her home would be welcome to get advice and mentoring from SCORE,” he said. “If a handyman is self-employed, he also could get SCORE counseling.”

3. Avvo.com

Ask a real lawyer about foreclosure, credit or bankruptcy issues at avvo.com. The attorneys are screened and profiled on the site, so you can read more about the person giving you free advice.

4. Credit unions

Many credit unions give their members free or low-cost credit counseling. Even if your employer doesn’t have a credit union, it’s worth looking for one to join in this credit union locator. Some accept anyone who lives in a certain geographical area.

So, Monday was a big loser for Wall Street - the highest single point drop in one day in history. This comes after hearing from our president that the economy is in big trouble… the word “depression” is being tossed around, and people are getting more and more fearful of the future.

But for some of us, it’s not a matter of being fearful of an unknown future - for some of us, it’s already a big struggle. We’ve all heard news that the job market is just as frozen here in the Sarasota/Bradenton area as the ice cold housing market. Layoffs, pay cuts, hiring freezes - yikes!

I don’t pretend to have any easy answers. What I’d like to hear is what you are doing to make it through all of this.

If you were recently jobless and recovered, how did you do it? If you are facing really desperate financial circumstances, how are you and your family getting by? If someone has offered you words of encouragement that really made a difference, what were they?

Leave a response below, and pass your wisdom on to us all!

They’ll never steal it again with these special plastic bags!

It’s a lunch bag with mold. Actually, it’s a ziplock bag with a pattern that looks like mold.

Parents, this could also be a hit at the lunch table at your kids school.

The designer is New York-based Sherwood Forlee who is actually a trained mechanical and aerospace engineer.

Sadly, a lot of the food in our fridge really DOES look like this! Yuck!

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