1. No; use a straight bar or dumbells.
2. Oatmeal, 1 whole egg, a few egg whites, protein shake, cottage cheese, kashi crucnh high protein cereal, yogurt, fresh fruit. These are examples, don't eat it all.
3. Depends on how you are splitting your lifting sessions. If you do full body workouts 1 - 2 exercises/large muscle group is good; if you do 1 muscle group for day shoot for 5 - 6 per large muscle group.