A woman has vowed to ditch meat altogether after finding a FOOT inside her Lidl roast chicken.

Mercedes Checkley, 25, bought a seasoned bird from Lidl for £3.99 last Sunday (6/2) and popped it in the oven for a roast dinner for herself and three friends.

But, when she removed it from the oven an hour and 45 minutes later, she discovered an entire chicken FOOT hiding inside the animal's body.

The horror sight left poor Mercedes vomiting and feeling faint - and she has now vowed to ditch meat altogether after the shock incident.

Mercedes, who works as a team leader in a care home and lives in Bedford, said: "I honestly didn't even process it at first.

"My housemate heard me making a weird noise and she knew something was wrong.

"I think it was the shock. At first, it was disbelief and almost funny because I was shocked but then reality set in and I went very faint and was physically sick.

"I haven't eaten since and I'm now really put off meat.

"I am gutted because a roast dinner is my favourite meal and one of my safe meals as I have bowel disease so this incident has created a fear of meat and I'm quite limited to what I can eat as a result."

Mercedes had finished a shift at work and offered to cook her housemate Amy, her boyfriend and his best friend a roast for dinner.

Buying all of the ingredients at her local Lidl, she put the roast chicken straight into the oven still in the bag as per the instructions so didn't notice the foot until it was time to carve the meat.

Following the shock incident that almost made her faint in the kitchen, Mercedes has barely been able to eat and is now ditching meat altogether.