You should keep items that you and your family will eat. Try and select items that you use daily in your home. If your kids won't eat canned tuna before the earthquake they certainly will not eat it after. Try to plan as if you're going on a camping vacation for seven days, because this is essentially what you will be doing. Don't forget, these will require extra stored water to make.
Spicy foods increase the consumption of fluids.
You need to eat as normally as possible both for your physical as well as your mental health. Basically, you'll be on a camp-out for three or more days. Unseen damage may cause an attic fire or allow carbon monoxide into dwelling. To open all your cans of stored food.