Sometimes you've no idea what to cook. You might have ingredients, you might have the blank canvas of a supermarket in front of you, sometimes you need something to prod you in the direction.
I've got a handful of apps that do this - the first, The good food app I think I got as a free download from Starbucks.
Now, it's on the iPad, which instantly means I don't access it anywhere near as much as I do my Galaxy S 2 phone, but every time I have tried it I've found it very limited on suggestions. It's organised in a sort of seasonable way, but it doesn't see very robust - but curiously it does have a timer, which seems a little out of place and stuck in at the last minute.
Compared to how good the BBC Good Food website is this is very disappointing.
It's not as useful as this for suggesting meals