Heheh, if you're terrible I must be the demon-mother incarnate - cause I've been doing it to my DD for the last 9 years. And she still goes through stages of dawdling over dinner and not really eating much. Other days she'll eat me out of house and home being constantly hungry (which usually coincides with another growth spurt and the need to buy her new clothes).

I figure it's not worth fighting over, if she doesn't want to eat she doesn't have to but she's not getting anything else - if she doesn't eat at dinner time it gets put in the fridge until bedtime then either made into a lunch or chucked depending on what it is.