[lucyjoy]

She's hungry until you tell her she has to eat her previous meal instead of something else? If its truely a food issue concerning health, feed her the something else.

11:30 at night? What time was dinner? So the 3 year old basically sat in time out for 5 hours? How does this help her relationship with you? How is staying up that late good for her health?

The child isn't creating this battle, you are. Its really not a good battle to fight with a little child that needs to be working on attachment.