Need help figuring out correct permissions for SQL Server Users
With (1) you should be good giving them db_datareader and db_datawriter. 

On (2) I would probably create a role and then grant that role execute permissions on all the stored procedures, in place of granting it to each individual user. Then just add those users to the role. If you have all the stored procedures under a schema name you should be able to grant execute to that schema. That will save time and not have to worry about new procedures being added to the database.