Two things I'd like to comment on...
First:
Reading the first reviewer's comment about the shelf life, I was concerned, but gambled on the purchase anyway. While I did better than they did (they received their product with 2 months until it went beyond the code date), I only got 8 months. Reading the description, it talks about being shelf stable for 13 months so I was robbed of the 5 months.
Second:
I bought this primarily as cream for my coffee so I'm estimating that I'll use at most 2 Tablespoons per day (more on the weekend, but I generally only have two cups of coffee at home as I'm mostly drinking my daily coffee at work). Each carton holds 64 Tablespoons. So that means I'd use it up in 32 days. However, each box is only good for 14 days once it's opened (although I'm guessing that's probably conservative). With those numbers, I'll be throwing away half of each box. Now I'm sure that I'll use the stuff in recipes here and there too, so my usage will increase somewhat but the long and short of it is that the boxes are just too darned big! Come to think of it I can probably take some to work as I've got a small Tupperware container to carry it back and forth in, but still :(
Continuing with the math, if I use one box every two weeks, that means my supply of 12 boxes will be used up in just 24 weeks which puts my supply inside the 8 months shelf stable date this batch came with.
Overall I'm happy, but BORDENS - PUSH TETRPAK (the packaging supplier) TO COME OUT WITH A CARTON THAT'S HALF THE CURRENT SIZE!!!!!!!!!!