Great question @Faithdefender. It got lost in the lively discussion about appearance of age, so I moved it over here.
Plans before animals is not a problem at all when we realize that Genesis couldn’t possibly be told from a space-eye view of the earth and simultaneously be ordinary days. The reason why is that there is no mornings and nights in space. Perhaps more obviously, they had no concept of a space-eye view.
For this reason, many literalists understand Genesis 1 to be about the creation of a localized area in six ordinary days, told from the perspective of a man with feet on the ground. This localized area could be Canaan, or the Garden. In a literal interpretation, however, it is very hard to imagine how this could possibly be the creation of the universe, the globe, or anything other than a localized view of the land. Remember, before day 1, it depicts the Spirit of God hovering over the water, which means that the planet earth preexists day one.
If you take a figurative view of Genesis, perhaps it speaks to cosmic creation of the universe and the globe of the earth, but that is certainly not a literal view. There are no mornings and evenings in space.
I think one very good way to resolve this is with A Telling in Six Ordinary Days. Perhaps Genesis 1 tells the story of creation of the universe to Moses or Adam in six ordinary days. So they are both literal and figurative days at the same time. However, the concrete details are in reference to the telling, in the same way a play tells a story without giving all the details to the larger story to which it references.
Now, if the creation week is just a localized area of the earth, just as Genesis literally tells us it is, we can see there is no real problem. Even if there are no animals in this plot of land, there is still carbon dioxide from animals elsewhere that nourished the plants.