I use the size 0 capsules for everything. Coat them with a little butter to make the capsule go down easily and offer food right before or immediately after. Safe either way. Get the capsules at the Vitamin Shoppe. (They have several stores in my area.) They are also available from their website online.
http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/e...jsp?id=SO-1001
For years and years we used to get our gel caps from our local pharmacies. Then suddenly they started giving people who wanted to buy gel caps a hard time. If they were for a pet we had to prove they were for a pet. Whatever the reason, it was very humiliating and upsetting. So finding gel caps at the Vitamin Shoppe was a real blessing. Hopefully pharmacies are not doing the same thing any more and getting gel caps from them is as easy and simple as it should be and always was in the past.