Party for 60, Numbers check please

I'm throwing a party for about 60 people. Mix of men and women of all ages. I have counted kids younger than 14 as half an adult.
Well 48 have rsvp'd but the with 18 outstanding so I figure I should cook for 60 and let people take home leftovers is there are any.

Here's what I'm thinking:

4 packer Briskets in the 10-12# range
10#s of pasta to become pasta salad
28 cups of beans, similar to Kerri's Hog Apple. I had made too much for my part of a family get together and have had them in the freezer.
12# Green Salad

Does that sound about right? Too little? WAY too much? Keeping in mind that I would rather have a little too much than not enough, especially on any meat as you can always find a use for leftover BBQ.

Do you think I should add another meat? If so any suggestions? I was originally thinking of grabbing some Italian sausage from costco/sams for a pseudo-Texan bbq.

Also we were thinking of cake and ice cream to finish. Any thoughts on how much of that?

Thanks! :thumb:

Thanks for all the information. It went off without a hitch and everyone loved it! Not to many up here had ever had brisket before.

I ended up cooking about a dozen racks of baby backs as well as the brisket. There were no burnt ends left and just enough brisket to make a pot of chili.
There were several racks of ribs left though. They are now vac packed and in the freezer.

I had a full pan and a half pan of beans with about a half pan left over.
The pasta salad was off by about 1/2 on the too much side same with the lettuce salad.

mikeTRON said:

I have recently been checking out www.ellenskitchen.com and reading the advice there.
Check it out.

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Lots of good info here. Thanks!

bigsapper said:

Got this from someone here recently. It might be helpful.
Oakridge BBQ Catering Workbook...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Anm6yujTKKr5dFN2UFlucFpTRmJvOUloNVZEMWFCVEE&hl=en_US

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Thanks, I used soezzy's calculator to come up with my numbers.