If you've waited this long to buy the ingredients for your Thanksgiving feast, you're likely to need all the help you can get.

So I walked the aisles of several Triangle stores today to find you the best prices on a few Thanksgiving staples: Turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberries (canned and fresh), and canned pumpkin.

Here's where I found the absolute rock-bottom prices on each:

A reader emailed me wondering why he was having such a hard time finding canned pumpkin in the grocery store.

"I recall buying canned pumpkin in the summer months before because I bake pumpkin chocolate chip cookies a few times each year," Don Sauer of Raleigh wrote.

Sauer remembered the pumpkin shortage of 2009 and wondered what was going on this year in the pumpkin world.