I seem to remember in the Silm. that the Valar certainly held feasts, with some of the Maia attending. As was posting earlier this was probably for pleasure rather than for nourishment. Though as Gwaihir put it, the Istari needed food to sustain them; they had been given physically non-powerful frames as houses for their spirits, and were forbidden to rival Sauron's strength with their own...their bodies were still just that of old men. They needed to eat.
I suppose that Sauron, when in physical form, also must of needed to eat, but it is difficult to imagine the dark-lord ordering a fruit salad!
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