So I'm still having some feeding issues with Nellie, and I know for a fact she can't be getting enough nutrition during the day because she usually doesn't eat much of either breakfast or dinner and I try not to give her too many treats in order to have her be hungry for dinner. I do half Honest Kitchen and half Taste of the Wild kibble for her normal meals. I leave it down for 10-15 minutes and usually she'll go and lick at it for a bit then run out of her crate/pen and start playing or rubbing herself on the carpet. She'll occasionally come back to it but just to lick at it again. Very rarely she'll polish it off or at least eat half of it. Sometimes she'll wander back after it's gone to look for the food bowl, but even after a month she doesn't seem to get that the food goes away after a few minutes if she doesn't finish.

I know I shouldn't be doing this, but then I give her a food toy ball about an hour later with just the kibble in it. She LOVES that and she'll eat every bit that drops out of it, but she just won't eat from her bowl. I do it because I worry she's not getting enough food, especially since she already grows really slowly (less than 1/2 pound a week) and is smaller than other (female) corgis her age.

I'm pretty sure it's not because of the food because I've tried lots of different flavors of HK already and there are some flavors she really doesn't like and some that she'll polish off, and even the flavors she'll eat she will sometimes snub to go play. Like I said she'll eat the kibble from her food toy so she probably likes that as well. Should I just shut her in the crate so that she has no choice but to eat and then make it an obvious gesture of taking the food away? Or is there a very good reason why she prefers playing over eating?