It ’ s the sort of meal that might have gone down well with John the Baptist . But 21-year-old Stephen Oldham was less enthused to find a live locust crawling inside a bag of ‘ ready to eat ’ rocket salad he bought from a Sainsbury 's store in Bath , Somerset . The university architecture student filmed the fully-grown insect before going back to the store with the unopened £1 bag , which had contents that originated in Spain . Scroll down for video . Shocking : Stephen Oldham found a live locust crawling inside a bag of ‘ ready to eat ’ rocket salad he bought from a Sainsbury 's store in Bath , Somerset . Mr Oldham said : ‘ I purchased a bag of rocket from Sainsbury 's Bath and when I was unpacking my shopping noticed that there was a locust living in the bag. ’ ‘ The person I spoke was quite humorous about it . Sainsbury 's are now handling it. ’ Mr Oldham posted a video of the locust on his Facebook page last Wednesday - which has since been viewed more than 3,500 times - with the caption : 'Today my salad came with extra protein . ' Similar incidents of locusts being found in supermarket salads in Britain were reported by Waitrose , Marks & Spencer and Tesco customers in April , May and July of last year . 'Surprised ' : The architecture student Mr Oldham ( left ) filmed the fully-grown insect ( right ) before going back to the store with the unopened £1 bag , which had contents that originated in Spain . A Sainsbury 's spokesman said : ‘ We 've apologised to Steve for this . 'Clearly it should never have happened and we have contacted him to make it up to him . ‘ Our supplier has stringent checks in place on the production line and we will be looking closely at how this occurred. ’ In the Gospels of Mark and Matthew , John the Baptist is said to live off locusts and wild honey .
Stephen Oldham , meanwhile , found himself crawling inside ' ready to eat ' salad . another reporter filmed it inside £ ##500 bag before taking it back . Sainbury 's apologises to the Oldham and cannot look into what happened .