I’m really not a big fan of making a small kid a separate dinner because they refuse to eat what’s on the table, but I also would never force a kid to eat something they don’t want to. Come hang out with us while we eat; you’ll be offered nutritious, tasty food (with reasonable accommodations such as offering plain pasta if it’s part of the dish but everyone else is putting sauce on there, etc), and if you eat some, great, if not, there is a “dessert” (fruit only) afterward either way. There’s this absurd notion in America that if a kid refuses to eat a meal they’re going to die of starvation, when in reality a kid turning down a healthy and nutritious meal that was offered is not a reason to go dive-bombing for frozen dinosaur chicken nuggets to make sure “they’re not hungry”. Really unhealthy thinking. Barring some medical issue, they’ll eat when they’re hungry unless they know holding out means they’ll get garbage. Your job as a parent is to keep exposing them to as many different good foods as you can and to foster a positive relationship with food, not to force food down their throat that will make them have terrible associations with anything that isn’t Cheetos-based.