A Failed Adventure in Eating Clean: Jicama

Eating clean isn't about eating every scrap of food off your dinner plate; it's about eating as close to the food source as possible. Fig Newtons, for example, are healthy but not clean. The cleanest fig food would be the fig itself, followed by fig preserves.

Since summer started, I have been trying to eat clean and to serve "clean food" to our family. Tonight's dinner salad met with a thumbs down from both my husband and our 12-year-old. The problem? Jicama.