Since my 2 years old daughter gave up breastfeeding, I observe that she's not depending on her milk. She does not demand for milk instead she's asking for snacks in between meal periods and before bedtime. She's just consuming 2-3 glasses of milk a day.
Some kids opted to drink milk even when they are hungry because it's much easier and faster to do. Milk dependent child are usually picky eaters. It is very common for toddlers to have various food preferences that varies from healthy food choices to unhealthy ones.
My child once has unhealthy food choice. Every morning after going out of bed, she will ask for chocolates, and wouldn't be contented with one but more. After she finishes one bar of chocolate, she will be asking for more until lunch time to which she no longer eat our meal because she's already full. Then I figured it out that this is not good.