A Tesco shopper was left horrified after claiming she found an infestation of bugs in her freshly-bought bag of flour.
Megan Davies was about to partake in some late night baking when she said she made the shocking discovery.
The 21-year-old claims the 79p bag was crawling with tiny weevils that are known to thrive inside dry foods such as flour.
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The bag had to be binned despite it having an expiry date of February 2025.
The university student had bought the bag just two weeks before after clearing out and replacing items in her grandma’s cupboards.
The pair wanted to do some baking so they visited Tesco Extra in Durham to purchase the goods.
The plan was to get the ingredients for Megan’s grandma to make a Christmas fruit cake.
She decided that she wanted to make herself a chocolate brownie.
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On 20 October, Megan claimed she opened the bag of flour to find that it had been infested by weevils.
But she said they had also got into all of the fresh items in the cupboard causing the pair to chuck their entire shop away.
Shocked Megan, of Durham, told What’s The Jam: “I was absolutely disgusted and shocked.
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“I have never come across these before, I bake very frequently and have done since I was a child, so for me to never have come across this it was a big shock.
“I didn’t know if it was out of date or just stored incorrectly.
“I was halfway through making the recipe when I noticed them in the flour, so all my ingredients that had been mixed had to be thrown away.
“Which is just as well considering they also got into the sugar I used.
“After telling my grandma about them I had to point them out to her in every product in our cupboard.
“She was horrified as she said ‘I’d never have noticed them’ and they have in fact made their way into the sugar we use for tea.”
Tesco – known of its Every Little Helps slogan – has been approached for a comment.
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