Momtroversy: Should you 'close' the kitchen?

About a month ago, driven to the brink of insanity by years of preparing dinner for my children and having one or none of them eat it, then proceed to ask me for food mere minutes after having cleaned the kitchen from the non-eaten dinner, I made a decision. After dinner was served, the kitchen would be closed. No more food. If they were hungry, they would eat at breakfast the next morning. My rational was that if they were hungry around dinner time (which they clearly were because they were requesting other foods once the non-preferred food from dinner was put away) they should eat their dinner. And if they weren't hungry enough to eat what was being served, they could wait. I was feeling rather pleased with myself, plus less frustrated by not preparing multiple meals and snacks and endless cleaning of the kitchen. And then I came across this article on Scary Mommy, where writer Wendy Wisner wrote that in her family, there are no cut off times for eating. Suddenly I began to...