POSHPAWS'S PROFILE

I'm new to this game and I've been enjoying it so far. I'm finding progression difficult without being able to obtain money to buy healing items. I've made it up to the top of the mountain but I have so little life in my characters and no means of healing them so I'm instantly wiped out. How do I play in the new game plus mode? Having made it to the top of the mountain it would have been nice to have had a tent to sleep in and restore my party ahead of the fight? I don't mind some difficulty but this is proving very difficult?