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  I know it's normal for kids to go through phases. Phases where they sleep well, phases where they don't sleep well. Phases where they eat everything in the house and phases where they eat nothing.

Ben has entered into a "food is no fun" phase.  It's stressing us out because Ben was always our good eater. He was our best hope for having a kid that would try new things and eat something other than "toddler food". But that has come to a screetching halt lately.

The only thing he ever asks for is chocolatel milk. And he says it with this gravely little voice that is bigger than one would expect from his little 30-pound body.  It's pretty cute.  Except that he's now stopped eating pretty much everything else except chocolate milk and yogurt. The boy LOVES yogurt. Not the healthy, grown up  kind, of course, he likes the little squeezing Gogurt tubes or drinkable ones. 

No matter what I put on his plate he just pushes it away and says "Yucky!" and screams for "chocolate milk!!!"  (which he pronounces choca milk!)

I can usually get him to eat three or four tubes of yogurt (the good news is that he'll never get a yeast infection) before bedtime, but it's a wonder the kid is still alive.

I can't go more than three hours without eating food or I wander around in a daze speaking of death and unable to function from sheer exhaustion. Yet little kids can go days without eating more than a single kernel of corn and still have the energy of a hummingbird.  I don't get it.

So what's your "go to food" when your kid won't eat anything?
And remind me, how long do food strikes usually last? I know Matthew went through this but I can't remember how long it took for him to discover the wonder of food again.

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