walk Five Passes near Mount Aspiring

We were given a book on trail food as a wedding present, and then found out I was pregnant about a week after the wedding. We did a few one night walks, but it’s too hard carrying a baby and a tent far, so we never got to use the book.
We have veggies and pasta sauce and fruit dehydrating as I type. We’ve going to make up a few meals and go on a day walk and have them for lunch. It’s not a perfect test because different things taste good when you’re walking, but hopefully we can improve a few recipes. We will need about ten days worth of food and we want to get it under a kilo each.
Any trail recipes welcome.

We pored over them and marked any of the features we know will be on the trial. It’s a bit annoying that the walk is in the corners of three different maps. I want to cut the relevant bits and stick them together, but DH has too much respect for maps to cut them, so we will have to take all three. Just looking at maps makes me want to go walking.

The maps are on the way. I emailed quarantine about whether we can take our own dehydrated meals, and I got a bit annoyed because they are fairly strict (no meat or dairy, no fruit or veg with seeds, must get checked for bugs) but then my husband reminded me that Australia wont let you bring in anything.

I have had the Mount Aspiring National Park on my Places list for a year, without doing anything about it. On the weekend, my husband asked what I wanted to do when I finished my PhD, and at first I said Paris, but then I started to think about what I really wanted to do.
We did a five night hike over the Cascade Saddle in New Zealand before we were married, and I loved it. We’d done other one or two night walks, but that one really got us away from the crowds. This one is rated as six to seven nights, and no huts or tracks, so it’s not going to be easy. I’m nearly forty, and I’m not particularly fit, but this gives me something to get fit for.
Grandma has agreed to look after our daughter for the two weeks that we would be away, in January next year.
I’m a little bit scared, but very excited.