Main roast, raw weight
- Input
- 8 + 2
- Expected output
- BR 1.2 kg | US 3.25 lb
Boneless prime rib, shared with the ham.
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new years eve dinner quantities
A New Year's Eve dinner leans on roasts you can carve at the table and a longer evening of drinks. These are the quantities for 8 adults and 2 children over 5 hours, with the midnight toast.
Boneless prime rib, shared with the ham.
Bone-in ham.
Raw potatoes, ½ lb per guest.
One 5 fl oz glass per adult.
Share of the 5-hour drinks.
Plan 1¼ lb of raw turkey per adult (1 to 1½ lb in the sources), ½ to ¾ cup of stuffing, ½ lb of raw potatoes to mash, ⅓ to ½ cup of gravy, 1 to 2 rolls and a slice of pie, with half of each portion for a child. For 8 adults and 2 children (9 adult equivalents) that is 11.25 lb of turkey with no leftovers. The calculator shows every dish with its range and rounds up to what you can actually buy.
Plan the same per-guest quantities as for Christmas dinner, with more drink: ½ to ¾ lb of boneless prime rib or ⅓ to ½ lb of bone-in ham per adult, and 1 to 2 drinks per guest per hour. For 8 adults and 2 children over 5 hours that is 3.25 lb of prime rib and 2.25 lb of ham when they share the table.
For 8 adults, 2 bottles of 750 ml cover one 5 fl oz glass each with the 10% margin. A 750 ml bottle pours about 5 glasses of that size, so 3 bottles leaves room for seconds.
Either works, and both together make a bigger spread for the same money. Prime rib asks ½ to ¾ lb per person boneless, ham ⅓ to ½ lb bone-in, so for the same group ham needs less weight per head and prime rib is the show piece.
The per-person rules are the same, but New Year's Eve runs later, so the drinks grow with the hours. Moving from 4 to 5 hours raises the beer for 8 adults from 18 cans to 22, and the food does not change.
Added to food and drinks. 10% covers seconds; 50% is the leftovers factor in turkey guides.
Beer, wine and sparkling wine count only for them.
US-menu drinks are counted per hour of the party.
Weights are raw and bone-in, as you buy them. The cooked meat on the plate is noticeably less.
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Each rule comes from the sources below, checked on 2026-11-10. Where they disagree, normal appetite uses the middle value and the range shows both ends. There is no official standard for this.
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