A few local businesses are now taking orders for Thanksgiving meals and desserts.

You can order a whole cooked local turkey plus sides and desserts to feed four people or 20 dinner guests from The Q Shack at North Hills in Raleigh. Prices start at $45. For more information, call 919-786-4381 or go to theqshack.com/turkey_order.php.

Durham bakeries, Scratch and Hummingbird, also have order forms for their baked goods if you don’t want to make your own desserts.

For more information about Scratch’s menu, go to piefantasy.com or call 956-5200.

For Hummingbird, call 919-908-6942 or go HERE. (I've also attached a copy of the Hummingbird bakery order form below.)

If there are more that should be added to this list, send me a note at andrea.weigl@newsobserver.com.

And check out Greg Cox's list of Triangle restaurants serving dinner on Thanksgiving Day in Wednesday's paper.

UPDATE: Here are a few more options if you want to order Thanksgiving dinner:

• Southern Season is offering a holiday catering menu. Turkeys start at $99. Go HERE to see the menu from cheese to desserts.
• Foster's Market in Durham and Chapel Hill is offering a holiday catering menu, including a Thanksgiving meal for four people for $99. Go HERE.
• Whole Foods stores across the Triangle also are offering Thanksgiving feasts. (There are Whole Foods stores in Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill and North Raleigh.) You can go online to see each store's menu and order what you like.
• Weaver Street Market with locations in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough also is offering complete dinners with turkey or ham or vegetarian for $69 to $99. To order, go to weaverstreetorders.com.

Raleigh's Capital Club 16 is holding its third annual game meat week from Nov.13-17.

The menu is "inspired by early American and European game feasts and galas," according to co-owner Shannon Wolf. Each night will feature specials using those listed above plus pheasant, bison and elk. On Nov. 15, the restaurant will offer Brown-Forman bourbon pairings with each entrees, which cost between $14 and $22. To make a reservation, call 919-747-9345. To see the menu, go to capitalclub16.com.

Also worth noting, Capital Club 16 will offer a traditional holiday roasted goose brunch on Dec. 2 working with the folks behind Commonplace Cooperative Farm, Slingshot Coffee, Tasty Beverage Co. and Stitch.

Durham baker Katie Meddis has organized a Sweet Relief Bake Sale to help victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey.

Meddis, who with her husband plan to open Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop in Durham, has recruited home and professional bakers and restaurant chefs to donate baked goods. The sale will be 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Durham's Fullsteam Brewery.

Among those donating goods are Rue Cler, Toast, Scratch, Guglhupf, Berenbaum's and The Cupcake Bar.

All the proceeds will go to the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties in New Jersey to feed the thousands of people living in shelters.

Here's more information about the bake sale: https://www.facebook.com/events/478474022175823/

Thanks to everyone who spent their Saturday morning with me learning about coupons, rebates and holiday savings. If this is your first time reading the blog, welcome!

I really enjoyed meeting all of you and hope you will make the Centsible Saver blog a regular part of your day as you look for coupon deals, freebies and tips on frugal living.

Look for new posts seven days a week. And be sure to check early Wednesday and Sunday mornings when I post the best sales and coupon matchups at the supermarkets and drugstores -- all of them tailored to Triangle shoppers.

If you're a coupon beginner, be sure to check out my Coupons 101 page HERE for basic information on couponing at the supermarkets and drugstores, a key to coupon lingo, tips on how to use the N&O's coupon database and much more.

If you're looking for the recipes I use for homemade foaming hand soap or homemade laundry soap...

The Durham Police Department and Performance Bicycle will distribute 300 safety whistles and train volunteers to help police the American Tobacco Trail during an "Our Trails, Our Town" event Saturday.

From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Performance Bicycle will hand out safety whistles to trail users at the Southpoint Crossings and Morehead Avenue trailhead entrances to the American Tobacco Trail.

Beginning at 11 a.m., the Durham Police Department will train 15 volunteers, who have already been pre-screened, at the Morehead Avenue trailhead entrance to the American Tobacco Trail. As part of this training, safety vests and whistles will also be provided to these volunteers.

Recent attacks have roused calls for the city to improve trail security. There have been at least nine incidents -- assaults, robberies and a sexual offense -- on the popular greenway since mid-May. Police have made three arrests, increased patrols, investigated installing video cameras and bought three utility terrain vehicles for trail use.

One last reminder about my coupon workshop scheduled for this weekend.

There are just 5 slots left so if you've been thinking about attending, you might want to grab your spot. Not only will you get the latest information on traditional and digital couponing, you'll score a reusable grocery bag filled with some very nice freebies.

The class is this Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Ronald McDonald House, 506 Alexander Ave., Durham, NC 27705.

The class covers basic and advanced coupon techniques, frugal living ideas and meal planning, including information on:

Deadline to enter is midnight tonight, Friday, Oct. 26.

If you've been wanting to attend one of my coupon workshops, here's an opportunity for you and a friend to attend for free.

I'm giving away two free tickets to my next class, scheduled for Nov. 3 at the Ronald McDonald House in Durham.

Just leave a comment by midnight Friday and you'll be entered to win. I'll announce the winner Saturday morning.

What you'll win:

Registration for you and a friend at the Nov. 3 class at the Ronald McDonald House, 506 Alexander Ave., Durham, NC 27705.

The class covers basic and advanced coupon techniques, frugal living ideas and meal planning, including information on:

By Virginia Bridges

South Durham residents fighting a planned cell tower that would be disguised as a pine tree will have another chance to make their case after the Board of Adjustment returned the case to a review panel Tuesday.

An application for the controversial 120-foot-tall tower, which would be located by St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church at 8306 N.C. 751, was submitted on behalf of an engineer who would be developing the tower for the Sprint Nextel Corp.

In general, land-use rules in the city and the county require applications for freestanding concealed towers to be complete and demonstrate that the structure would be compatible with adjacent structures and landscapes.  The Development Review Board, an internal review board that approves such towers, determined in June that the application met all the requirements by an 8-1 vote.

Durham's Rockfish Seafood Grill is hosting a "Cask Ales for Tails" event from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday (10/24) to benefit Second Chance Adoption.

Six Triangle breweries are bringing cask conditioned beers for sampling. A $10 cash donation at the door gets you in to taste the beer and enjoy light appetizers. Plus, bring extra cash to buy raffle tickets for prizes. All money collected will be donated to the charity.

The breweries include Haw River Farmhouse Ales of Saxapahaw, Deep River Brewing Co. of Clayton, Steel String Craft Brewery and Four Saints Brewing Co. in Asheboro. Plus, this event will be the Triangle debut of two breweries: Raleigh Brewing Co. and Crank Arm Brewing.

Here's a LINK to the event's Facebook page.

While I have beer drinkers' attention, you may want to mark this event on your calendar:

Hillsborough's Wooden Nickel Pub is hosting a cask beer fest from noon to 11 p.m. Nov. 3. Forty dollars gets you a souvenir glass and a taste of cask-conditioned brews from Fullsteam, Big Boss Brewing Co., Aviator Brewing Co., Haw River Farmhouse Ales, Mother Earth Brewing and several other breweries.

For more information, check out the Wooden Nickel's Facebook page. Tickets will be sold at the door.
 

(If you hadn't heard of some of these breweries, check out my post in June about the breweries on the horizon in the Triangle. I can't believe we have 2 more since that time.)

It seems every time there's a food truck rodeo at Durham Central Park, it is the largest one ever. And they've done it again.

More than 50 trucks will gather from 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Sunday for the Triangle's largest food truck gathering to date. The trucks gather in downtown Durham at the intersection Foster and Hunt streets where the farmers market pavilion is located.

Brian Bottger with Only Burger just confirmed that this event will include beer. Fullsteam Brewery will be selling beer to go with the food on these trucks and many more: Pie Pushers, Stoke & Smoke BBQ, Boxcarr Farms, Big City Sandwiches, Porchetta and Blue Ribbon Delights.

To see the complete list of trucks, go to durhamcentralpark.org/events/food-truck-rodeo/