Sam2:Melava Malka is defiantly a Mitzvah(b’alma), but it is not a chov the nafka minah is if one only has enough money for the shabbas meals(Mishna Brura 300:2) With regards to intention there is an idea of bringing out shabbas with kavod,and an idea that the one bone that does not disintegrate eats from the melavah malka.
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