THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, September 20, 1994            TAG: 9409200047
SECTION: DAILY BREAK              PAGE: E3   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   38 lines

RECIPES THAT WILL APPEAL TO TODDLERS

MOTHER ALWAYS said ``Eat your vegetables.'' And for 20 years, parents have used ``Feed Me, I'm Yours,'' a book of recipes guaranteed to get toddlers to do just that.

Now, Meadowbrook Press has revised the book to meet the changing demands of the 1990s. Working parents told author Vicki Lansky that they needed practical, quick suggestions for their finicky eaters.

Times have changed since Lansky was a young mother living in suburban Minneapolis in 1974 with two small children, ages 1 and 3. She wrote the cookbook in those years as a fund-raiser for the local prepared-childbirth education group. With the help of five other mothers, she compiled a book that gave mothers an alternative to commercial baby food.

Today, her revised book gives parents suggestions on how to give kids nutritious, yet quick and interesting meals.

``No one wants to be creative at 7 a.m., but breakfast is a very important meal,'' Lansky writes in her chapter called ``Pizza for Breakfast.'' ``A peanut butter sandwich, a hunk of cheese and whole-wheat toast or a container of yogurt are perfectly acceptable breakfast foods.''

Here are some of Lansky's kid-pleasing recipes: [Recipes follow... For copy of recipes, see microfilm] ILLUSTRATION: [copy of book cover]

``Feed Me, I'm Yours,'' a favorite for 20 years, has been updated by

author Vicki Lansky with practical, quick recipes.

by CNB