Day Care Connection

10/19/2026

Happy Farm 2 CACFP week!

DCC CACFP providers can help us celebrate and enter to win an outdoor Farmer’s Market/Mud Kitchen (pic in comments) by doing one of the following things:

🥕 check your email for the farm to basket activity to do with the kids then send us a pic! Please get parent permission for any pics sent and used!

🥕taste testing a local fruit or vegetable with the kids…maybe try one you don’t find yourself serving often!

🥕 visit a farmers market!

🥕 visit an apple orchard!

Pics can be posted here on our FB page OR emailed to us. This info also emailed to you! Drawing live Monday the 26th on FB!! Don’t have to be on FB to win. DCC staff will be in touch with the winner! 🧑‍🌾

10/19/2026

We had an awesome Fall CACFP Conference day! Thank you so much to all the providers who attended, my staff who worked SO hard on this training, Jan and Erica (our providers who presented) and some family members of Nancy’s who came to lend an extra hand! We had a wonderful day of continuing education and community! 📝📚👩‍🍳🥘

10/15/2026

Watch your emails next week and here on FB for ways to celebrate this fun week with us! 🥕🍓

10/04/2026

Have you heard of A2 milk? DCC also can tell you several other milks that are approved and do not require a meal modification in the CACFP. Give us a call if you have any questions about milk and milk alternatives!

10/02/2026

You know what October brings…FARM 2 CACFP WEEK!!! 🐓🌾👩‍🌾

Be watching for a fun way to participate and win this wooden outdoor farmer’s market play set if you are a Day Care Connection CACFP provider! Watch your email for details! 🥕🍓

10/01/2026

We appreciate you! Welcome to a new CACFP year! 🍓🥦🍌🥕

09/25/2026

We are entering a new program year here in Kansas for the USDA’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). We would love to chat with you if you have ever thought about joining the program or just have questions! 🥕

09/23/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out for our CAPE-ABLE and fire extinguisher check event! Thank you to Johnson Controls for working with us in the evenings and thank you to our CACFP Provider and CAPE Ambassador, Angie Carnes, for helping her fellow providers with setting up their CAPE accounts!
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09/22/2026

THAT TIME AGAIN!!!

09/18/2026

Happy National Food Safety Month! Do you use a meat thermometer?? Please read some important reminders below! 🌡️

As we move through September, we are continuing Food Safety Month!

Checking the internal temperature of meats and leftovers is the only way to guarantee bacteria is killed and your food is cooked properly.

To accurately check your food, use an internal meat thermometer and place it in the thickest or center pieces of meat. Different foods have different recommended internal temperatures as listed below: