Yeah.... Matilda has gone through this phase a few times. She did at 13 months, 18 months and 2 yrs. She went 2 months without eating dinner and with minimal food.

When she was 2yrs we adopted a 20 minute policy. We offered her meals and ate together and after 20 minutes if she hadn't started eating dinner we would take it away. If she ate dinner we would give her a tablespoon of ice cream and if she didn't we gave her some sultanas or small amount of fruit (to try to get something in her). After 2 weeks of doing that she started eating dinner again. We get refusal one night a week now, but we just continue to do the same thing.

When she was 2 and hadn't eated anything for 2 days, I was over trying to offer her things, I would make 3 meals every meal and just was desperate to feed her. In the end she leaned over & ate my dinner (same as hers but on my plate). Cheeky.... We got the 20 minute policy off a Triple P counsellor and like I said once we started 2 weeks later she was eating heaps better. Apparently for her its a power thing... all about control...

So I'm not saying thats what your littlies are doing, but maybe its their way of trying to control their environment. Its a stressful thing to go through & apparently the best thing to do is be indifferent, but I find that really hard.