LYNN – KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School has joined forces with one of Lynn’s newest businesses to help bring fresh and nutritious school breakfast and lunches to its over 300 students.Sidekim Foods opened at 82 Sanderson Ave. in early February with a mission of providing the freshest, healthiest foods to local organizations who serve meals from outside food distributors.Equipped with brand-new, state of the art, environmentally friendly machinery, Sidekim employees prepare the day’s menu fresh and from scratch every morning, and already distribute to over 600 meals a day to organizations in Lynn and the surrounding communities specializing in child care, corporate catering, senior services and nutrition.The company’s CEO, Lynn native Peter Mikedis, has experience in the food distribution industry as director of Meals on Wheels in Boston, but said disagreement over how the organization should be run led him to create his own business using only healthy and environmentally friendly methods.”I was born and raised in Lynn and went to school in Lynn, so my roots are here, even though I moved really far away – to Saugus,” he said. “So when we were looking at a place to open up, I said ?Why not bring it back to my hometown.’ We have 5,500 square feet of space, and a state of the art facility. I am not just saying that because it is my company, it really is impressive.”The ingredients are always fresh or fresh frozen, depending on the season and market cost, and all meals are prepared daily and distributed with the company’s own delivery vehicles.”For example, tomorrow our menu is meatloaf, potatoes and fresh veggies. My employees peeled 300 pounds of potatoes this morning, we make our own food and we have fresh meat, fresh everything,” he said. “We are a trans-fat free facility, we serve fresh fruit four days a week, we bake our own muffins from multi-grains for the kids every morning. If we teach our kids to eat well now, it will make things better for them later in life.”While healthy foods are of strong emphasis at Sidekim, Mikedis knows what kids like to eat, which is why once a week a brownie or other dessert is on the menu, and classics like chicken nuggets are still going strong- just with better, healthier ingredients.”If you bite in to one of our chicken nuggets, you are biting in to a solid piece of chicken,” he said. “We don’t use any of that process stuff, it is real, good chicken.”Mikedis said he went to all of the schools in the city to pitch his new company, and hopes to bid on the Lynn Public Schools account when it goes up for bid this summer. As for KIPP, he has a history with the school and says Principal Josh Zoia was on board as soon as he took a tour of the facility.KIPP students are at school from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, and receive breakfast, lunch and a snack to keep their bodies and minds healthy and alert.After a week of serving the new food at KIPP, Zoia walked into the lunchroom and asked students for their honest opinion as to whether they preferred the old or new food. Mikedis said every student in the room raised their hand to support Sidekim Foods.”Good health is essential to high academic achievement and the correlation between good food and good grades are becoming well known,” Zoia said. “We are delighted to partner with Sidekim Foods and support local business whenever possible.”Sidekim foods currently employ eight people full time and hopes to add 10 more this September. It has a partnership with the culinary department at Lynn Vocational and Technical High School that allows two students to work co-op jobs at the factory, and will employ 10 teenagers as part of the Mayor’s summer jobs initiative this summer.