Enter your guest count and whether the ham is bone-in or boneless to see the total weight to buy.
Like other bone-in roasts, bone-in ham needs more raw weight per person than boneless because the bone itself isn't edible. Standard holiday-meal guidance is about 1/2 pound of boneless ham or 3/4 pound of bone-in ham per guest.
Source: Based on standard USDA and grocery-industry holiday ham guidance of about 1/2 lb boneless or 3/4 lb bone-in per person.
For bone-in ham at about 3/4 lb per person, plan for roughly 7.5 pounds; for boneless at about 1/2 lb per person, plan for about 5 pounds.
Bone doesn't contribute edible meat, so a bone-in ham needs a higher total raw weight to deliver the same amount of meat per person as a boneless ham.
It's very close — both are bone-in holiday roasts with similar edible-yield ratios, though this calculator uses ham-specific figures (3/4 lb bone-in, 1/2 lb boneless) from standard holiday meal planning guidance.
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